Try typing in disk followed by <TAB> as root. That should show you everything
executable in your path of the form disk???. Doing this on Mandrake you
quickly find the disk partitioning tool is called diskdrake
Kevin.
On Friday 17 December 2004 09:38, Rory Browne wrote:
>Hmm so this is just for your general information, and not for
>anything specific? Okay, in that case you should also take a look at
>qtparted, which has been described as a clone of partition magic.
>>If I had a Redhat/Fedora box, I could check but I'm running SuSE at
>the minute, and its YAST, tool is particularly GUI Friendly, for
>command line dislikers.
>>Check through /usr/bin, /bin, /usr/sbin, and /sbin to see if there is
>anything there named disk-druid.
>>As for general graphical stuff, there is a page on linux.ie IIRC, that
>lists general *nix equivlents for standard windows apps. Might come in
>useful.
>>Good Luck.
>>>On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 07:54:45 +0000, Frank Murphy
>><lists2004 at utvinternet.com> wrote:
>> Rory Browne wrote:
>> > what exactly do you want to do? The use of disk-druid should only be
>> > considered when you have a specific purpose for it.
>>>> Rembering setup, it seems to handle, soft-raid, partitions etc..
>> in a Graphical manner, & as someone who is trying to encourage more use
>> of Linux.
>>>> To "people" who generally, don't realise, that there is an alternative
>> to MS. The more visual I can present it, the better (for them & me)
>>>> Frank
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