Software for partitioning harddrive outside of OS

[Ponch]

personally i think that gparted on its own CD is a waste of a CD (unless ur using a CD RW) why use a whole cd for something as small as gparted when u can have gparted and another WHOLE OS on it at thesame time? just install ubuntu live, then just run gparted off a cd!

it has many advantages, i.e. u dont have to restart every time u want to google a problem (if there is one )

you could also compare

-the price of cd and a cdrw (that will get worn with time anyway)

-the time it takes to burn them (at 52x and 10x)

-the time it takes to download Ubuntu (700MB) and GParted (90MB)

-the time it takes to boot Ubuntu Live and to boot GPartEd Live.

not so sure it's a waste of a cd.

[jaclaz]

If we are going to start debating "value for byte downloaded" The answer (speaking of something pre-install) is IMNSHO UBCD:

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

which contains, beside parted magic, a great number of diagnostic utilities, everything in a 115 Mb .iso also downloadable as 87 Mb 7-zip SFX.

jaclaz