Whether or not parted is installed already depends on your distribution and
the choices you made during the installation. Any distribution worth its salt
will have it available as a package though.
Normally, people use fdisk for partitioning, but that doesn't resize/move
partitions, so parted (or qtparted, if you want something graphical) are the
only choices pretty much. I do know that Knoppix has qtparted, so that might
be a good way to go for you. That way, you don't have to worry about
unmounting a partition on a live install. Just pop in the knoppix disk, check
the partitions (fsck.*) and run qtparted.
To get a second drive going, you need to partition it (fdisk or parted) and
then format the partitions (mkfs.*). Then you can go ahead and mount them
(directly or via /etc/fstab).
- Marcel

Luis.Moreira@jet.uk (Luis Moreira) wrote:

> Hi Marcel,
> The partition checkers you mentioned, are they included on the
> distribution or I have to downloaded them?
> Is this the normal program (Parted) that everyone normally uses?
> Another question you may be able to answer, to install a new hard drive
> is just a question of mounting it or it involves something else?
> Thanks for the help 
> Best regards
> 		Luis
> 
> Luis Moreira
> luis.moreira@jet.uk
> tel. 01235464615
> JET PSU Department
> UKAEA Culham Division
> J20/1/55, Culham Science Centre
> Abingdon
> Oxfordshire
> OX14 3DB
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf
> Of marcel@carrietech.com
> Sent: 07 September 2005 09:11
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: [OT]Linux
> 
> Sorry, that's "parted". partman is the debian installer version.
> 
> marcel@carrietech.com wrote:
> 
> > GNU partman lets you resize most partitions. Careful though, make sure
> there's
> > no (hidden) corruption. Run partition checkers on everything
> beforehand.
> > - Marcel
> > 
> > Luis.Moreira@jet.uk (Luis Moreira) wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Guys,
> > > I need to install two Linux OS on the same machine I am running FC3
> at
> > > the moment but I want to install SUSE 9.3 also.
> > > Is there a Linux software or command that allows me to do that,
> > > something along the lines of partition magic?
> > > 
> > > Best regards
> > > 		Luis
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 




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