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ScottyB

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I haven't linux in while but I remember there had to be two partitions for it to work, the linux ext2 one and the swap file one. I am formatting a drive to put on redhat 7.1 but Partition Magic only has a drop down menu for linux ext2. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to set this up?
 
ya there is no reason to use stuff like partition magic with linux. Disk druid and other native fdisk-like programs will be able to handle the making and deleting of a multitude of file formats much better than partition magic.
 
I don't know why people keep using partition magic and the like.
It doesn't support the new Linux filesystems like ext3, Reiser, and XFS.
 
Because Partition Magic is good at resizing FAT/NTFS partitions. It doesn't matter one lick that it can't format Linux native partitions (although in a sense it would be great to resize them, it's not really necessary).

I believe Mandrake has their own partition resizing tool, but if not Partition Magic, can you name one alternative that will get the job done? Last I read (a while back) fips is very primitive.
 
Because Partition Magic is good at resizing FAT/NTFS partitions. It doesn't matter one lick that it can't format Linux native partitions (although in a sense it would be great to resize them, it's not really necessary).
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It can format and resize ext2 partitions, infact I believe it was Ted Tso that wrote the code and after a set amount of time (already expired) it became GPL as ext2resize or something.
 
You can also use Partition Magic to setup ext2 partitions ahead of time spaced out how you like it. Almost all of the new filesystems will reuse an ext2 partition table entry even if they can't convert over the data (though ext3 can). This being said it's just not much use on a standalone Linux system (like my Linux box; I find it much simpler and faster to just use Linux's fdisk), but in a dual-boot situation Partition Magic is still useful.
 
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