> parted: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html > gpart: http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/ > and dd/cat/fdisk. > > With those three you have the functionality of every partitioning > utility in existance. ...until you read the fine print. While those will do the trick most of the time, and the the utilities in the last 2 lines will address the drivecopy issue, parted is not fully functional because of some limitations. In particular, 1. For ext2: the start of the partition must stay fixed. Partition Magic doesn't have this limitation. Andy