Resize your Windows/Linux Partitions Without Spending a Dime: A free alternative to PartitionMagic* and the likes

Date July 28, 2006 by Isaac

I've always been an Open Source fan, but I must say that I am particularly impressed by the quality of GParted. GParted allows you to non-destructively resize and manipulate hard drive partitions. Many Live CD's contain GParted and allow you to resize various filesystems such as: FAT, NTFS, EXT2, EXT3, XFS, and more. In my opinion, one of the coolest things they've done is to create a GParted Live CD. Most Live CD's tend to have older versions of the software on them, but the GParted Live CD is updated whenever there is an update to NTFSTools or GParted. Very cool! This CD is around 30MB, which is perfect for those tiny business card CD's. To use, simply pop the CD into your drive, reboot and allow the system to boot into the CD, and then follow the instructions. This CD is definitely a MUST HAVE for any system administrator, user, grandma, shop-a-holic, etc. So, throw away your expensive partitioning tools and burn yourself a live CD.

* Norton PartitionMagic is a trademark of Symantec

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