Re: [SLUG] Linux into a T41 Thinkpad

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Wed Jun 25 2008 - 12:39:15 EDT


On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Dave Lowe wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Robin - Bartow FL wrote:
>
>> GParted Live CD
>
> Oh yeah. So far 95% of the time GParted has been useful. Only time was
> trying to move/resize a Vista NTFS partition. It got ugly. Apparently,
> Vista installed and left a 1MB **empty** unallocated space between the
> partition and the beginning of the drive. No way to move or resize
> that first partition at all. Had to hose it.
>
> Bummer.

Now, with spin the other direction:

GParted assumes every partition is flush against the previous partition, and
breaks when that turns out not to be the case. This bug bit Robin while
repartitioning a Vista install.

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