Partition sizes

[732]

When I use qtparted to create my partitions (eg 12000MB) and then use Partition Magic 8 to check the partitions I get error 110 that the partition length is wrong and it resizes it to 12004.4MB.

Could anybody clarify this?

[732]

does anybody have an idea?

[devils casper]

Parted uses MB as a partition Unit while Partition Magic uses Cylinders (512 bytes). Parted created exact 12000MB partition but its not in accordance with Partition Magic's Unit.




casper

[732]

Thank you for the reply. Is there a way to create cylinder sized partitions with Parted?

[devils casper]

No ! Parted doesn't care about cylinders and it hasn't any option for changing Partition Unit. moreover it doesn't allow Unit's fractions. it isn't possible to create 12004.4 MB partition using 'parted'. it allows either 12004 or 12005 MB.





casper

[twoHats]

Don't forget good old fdisk - IMHO a much more capable tool for partitions ... just be really careful!

[devils casper]

Don't forget good old fdisk - IMHO a much more capable tool for partitions ... just be really careful!

fdisk is one of THE GOOD OLD partitioner but its not capable of resizing existing partitions.




casper

[twoHats]

Yeah - fdisk will give the info you need to do so but wont do the job for you. I recently resized an ntfs partition with a tool called ntfsresize and it worked like a charm - don't know if there is an ext3resize(?) or extresize or ??? This was on a debian based distro.


at any rate i had a good fdisk session 1st, getting the beg - end of each partition. Also defragged the ntfs part first ...don't know if any of this is relavant but it's free.

Peace