Programs to partition HD`s under Linux

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Yet another stupid mistake by me.

Relised, when I ran out of space on /home yesterday, that I`d forgotten
to mount it on it`s own partition when I was reinstalling my system a
while back.

Right now /home is mounted on /, a 1Gb partition.

I do a lot of manipulation of my own photos(~300Mb and increasing), and
have a fair stack of .wavs and .mp3 (~ 800Mb), so I need a lot of space
to play about with. >:-)

So, my question:

Is there a good (free of course!) program I can use to partition my
Windoze disk down a bit?
And does any one have some suggestions on how to allocate all the space
I`ve got? I`d prefer to keep hold of some Windoze space.

Currently my setup is:
6Gb EIDE, with

1Gb / (30%-100% full, depending what I`m doing),
16Mb /boot (5% full), 128Mb swap partition and
the rest as /usr (51% full).

Also an 8Gb EIDE with Windoze on it (currently 48% full.)

I could free 1GB /usr - I`ve copied some info from the windoze drive
across incase I either:

(a) kill it by mistake when repartitioning, or
(b) get fed up, and kill it deliberately (defrag has hung 3 times on
the trot).

Cheers,
Baz.

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Barrie J. Bremner

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