Linux equivalent to partition manager

zeus · July 19, 2006, 2:37pm

Does anyone know a Linux equivalent to Partition Magic or Partition Manager?

Also a decent data recovery tool?

sabashuali · July 19, 2006, 5:16pm

Gparted is the gnome version but I am pretty sure it will work under KDE as well.

However, if you are running Mandriva it has the best disk managment tool I have ever seen. It is so easy I am pretty sure my 8yr old cubb can use it…

Addis · July 19, 2006, 6:55pm

Also QtParted is available.

zeus · July 19, 2006, 7:07pm

Im looking at qtparted now.

To be honest it seems there is only one partition manager, GNU Parted with a core of libparted, and both QTparted, Gparted etc are GUI front ends for libparted.

Many Thanks

Addis · July 19, 2006, 8:26pm

I’d make a good guess that the Mandriva partition manager uses the same library, so from a functional point of view they are the same.

kenji_san · July 19, 2006, 9:07pm

If you are using KDE, the control panel has a partition manager built in. At least from 3.5.1 on. Maybe this is the same one that mandriva uses, only rebranded.