Partitioning your HD using Gparted/KDE Partition Manager

WARNING: for disk naming Please refer to UUID, Partition Labelling and fstab, as by default aptosid uses UUID
Partitioning tools may request a root password, type sux then your password. On a Live-ISO none is set sux then press 'enter' . See: Live Mode

Resizing the NTFS partition requires you to reboot the system immediately! DON'T DO any other operations on this partition before the reboot, otherwise you will get errors. Please read this.

Always back-up your data!

Basics

A partition must have a filesystem. Linux knows different filesystems to use. Ext4 is the recommended format for aptosid. ext2 is handy as a storage format as an MS Windows™ driver is available for data-swapping. Ext2 Installable File System For MS Windows.

For normal use we recommend the ext4 file system, it is the default file system for aptosid .

Using KDE Partition Manager & Gparted

Creating and managing partitions is not something that is typically done every day. Therefore, a good idea is to read this guide once, to get comfortable with the concepts and some of the panels that will appear.

KDE Partition Manager - run in a terminal:

sux
partitionmanager

Gparted - run in a terminal:

sux
gparted
The following screenshots are of Gparted. KDE Partition Manager behaves in much the same manner.

NTFS partition Resizing

Resizing the NTFS partition requires you to reboot the system immediately! DON'T DO any other operations on this partition before the reboot, otherwise you will get errors.

Full GParted documentation: To read the full documentation including, How-To copy partitions please go to GParted

Writing to NTFS partitions with ntfs-3g

Be warned: Whilst the ntfs-3g is stated to be 'stable', never use it without external backup, and of course not on production systems! If you do, it's your fault if your data gets lost, so use at your own risk!

Open a shell and enter the following commands:See Partitioning your HD - Disk Naming

sux
apt-get update && apt-get install ntfs-3g
umount /media/xdxx
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/disk/by-uuid/xxyyzz[etc] /media/xdxx
To get out of the konsole type: exit

Now your NTFS Volume should be mounted rw and you should be able to store data on it. But again, be warned! Use it in emergency situations, it is not recommended for use on a daily basis.

Content last revised 14/08/2010 0100 UTC