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freeware partition resizing utility

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i'm running out of space, and i didn't see why. i open disk management and see that i have 40 gigs of unpartitioned free space on my drive. the problem is that i already have 4 partitions, so i can't create a new one. since i'll be using this utility only once, i rather not go out and buy PM or something like it. does anyone know of a freeware tool that will do the same thing PM will do?
 
holy s-

i downloaded knoppix to use qtpart. this thing is amazing.

i'm actually tinkering with the live cd vs. doing what i should be doing.
 
Ya. Knoppix is a great advertisement for Linux. It's wonderfull when everything "just works". The first time I tried out one of these live cdroms I had my computer booted up in it for 2 days straight before I realised it.

It's actually a modified version of Debian testing (or unstable) with some add-ons for slickness and to make it work better from just booting from a CDROM. You can install it on your harddrive if you want. Of course after a while of using it more and more of Linux's rough edges will start popping up, but I like it. After reading a bunch of stuff and adjusting to the change, most things become fairly trivial to accomplish after searching around google for pointers and tips about whatever your trying to accomplish.

Spotty hardware support from vendors and lack of games is the major things holding it back from the "enthusiests" point of view, I guess. And the learning/time consuming aspects of it. I figure it's a trade off, more time learning vs spending time defragging or running anti-malware applications. Nothing is perfect.

Hope qtparted works out. Be sure to back up your important stuff first though..
 
qtparted worked like a charm.

this version if knoppix is definately an improvement over what i downloaded about 5 months back.

i'm a BSD guy, unfortunately, freesbie had some issues with my hardware, so i didn't have much luck poking around with it.
 
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