January 2007
Modify Your Partitions With GParted Without Losing Data | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials
by gregR & 3 othersThis article shows how you can modify the partitioning of your Linux system with GParted (Gnome Partition Editor) without losing data. This includes resizing partitions (enlarging and shrinking), moving partitions on the hard drive, creating and deleting partitions, and even modifying filesystem types. GParted is a free partition editor available as a desktop program and also as a Live-CD. It supports the following filesystems: ext2, ext3, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs , jfs, linux-swap, reiserfs, reiser4, ufs, xfs, and even ntfs (Windows).
September 2006
TestDisk - CGSecurity
by gregR & 18 othersTestDisk is a powerful free data recovery utility! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally erasing your Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.
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