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posted by Dennis, 31.07.2011, 17:05

> > It is easy enough to create enough partitions from 300 GB, if you would
> > like to include an extended DOS partition containing logical drives, as
> > well as a large partition for a Linux - even at a later stage.
> >
> > e.g. On my main machine (2 x HDD), I have 4 FAT16 DOS partitions (2 GB
> > each) and 4 Linux ext2 partitions (including one of 32 GB), and I can boot
> > any of those from the DOS boot menu using .bat files.
>
> Ron: my problem is that I'm not sure how to go about partitioning a hard
> disk in that way.
I tend to use Linux GPartEd, the Gnome Partition Editor, for that. It's a graphical partition manager that lets you create, manipulate, and delete partitions, and format the partitions to the desired filesystem.

You can get it as an ISO intended to be burned to a CD you can boot from. The CD boots a Linux kernel and runs GPartEd, so you can use it to partition arbitrary machines, as long as the box supports booting from CD.

See http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
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