Free partition software for linux

Partition Logic is a free hard disk partitioning and data management tool. It can create, delete, format, and move partitions and modify their attributes. It can copy entire hard disks from one to another.

Partition Logic is free software, based on the Visopsys operating system. It boots from a CD or floppy disk and runs as a standalone system, independent of your regular operating system.

Partition Logic is intended to become a free alternative to such commercial programs as Partition Magic, Drive Image, and Norton Ghost...

Gpart is a tool which tries to guess the primary partition table of a PC-type hard disk in case the primary partition table in sector 0 is damaged, incorrect or deleted. The guessed table can be written to a file or device. Supported (guessable) filesystem or partition types by Gpart are:
- DOS/Windows FAT (FAT 12/16/32)
- Linux ext2
- Linux swap partitions versions 0 and 1 (Linux >= v2.2.X)
- OS/2 HPFS
- Windows NT/2000 FS
- *BSD disklabels
- Solaris/x86 disklabels
- Minix FS
- Reiser FS
- Linux LVM physical volume module (LVM by Heinz Mauelshagen)
- SGI XFS on Linux
- BeOS filesystem
- QNX 4.x filesystem
Enhancements:
- New support for the following filesystems: BeOS, QNX 4.x & SGI XFS.
- Updated Reiser filesystem support (Francis Devereux).
- Updated LVM support.
- Several small fixes from contributors.

barvinok library can count the number of integer points in parametrized and non-parametrized polytopes.
For parametrized polytopes an explicit function in the shape of a piece-wise step-polynomial is constructed.
This is a generalization of both Ehrhart quasi-polynomials and vector partition functions. Alternatively, a generalized Ehrhart series can be constructed as well.
Enhancements:
- This release supports exponential substitution for non-parametric problems, primal and stopped decomposition for parametric problems, and a polynomial approximation based on nested sums.

GParted stands for Gnome Partition Editor.

GParted project uses libparted to detect and manipulate devices and partitiontables while several (optional) filesystemtools provide support for filesystems not included in libparted.

These optional packages will be detected at runtime and dont require a rebuild of GParted.

GParted is written in C++ and uses gtkmm as Graphical Toolkit. The general approach is to keep the GUI as simple as possible. Thats why i try to conform to the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines.

GParted comes under the terms of the General Public License.

List::Part is a Perl module that allows you to partition one array into several.

SYNOPSIS

use List::Part;
($good, $bad)=part { !/substring/ } @array; #store arrayrefs into $good and $bad
(*good, *bad)=part { !/substring/ } @array; #store into @good and @bad

ABSTRACT

List::Part implements the part function, allowing one array to be "partitioned" into several based on the results of a code reference.

There are many applications in which the items of a list need to be categorized. For example, lets say you want to categorize lines in a log file:

my($success, $failure)=part { /^ERR/ } ;

Or, suppose you have a list of employees, and you need to determine their fate:

my($lay_off, $give_raise, $keep)=part {
$_->is_talented ? 0
: $_->is_executive ? 1
: 2
} @employees;

Actually, the second one is better suited to parts alternate form, parta:

my($lay_off, $give_raise, $keep)=parta
[ sub { $_->talented }, sub { $_->is_executive }, qr// ] =>
@employees;

Or maybe you just want yet another way to write the traditional Perl signoff:

perl -MList::Part -e"print map{@$_}part{$i++%5}split,JAercunrlkso ettPHr hea,"

List::Part can help you do those sorts of things.

EvilEntity is different. Very different! Designed with idealistic integrity, EvilEntity paves the road for a new generation of Linuxes to follow. We provide features without bloat.

This means performance, serious performance like no other OS currently offers. EvilEntity Linux is the development branch of a desktop Linux distribution designed specifically for the multimedia poweruser, videogamers, audio/video professionals, and speed freaks.

EvilEntity is a complete replacement for your current inferior OS. With EvilEntity installed you can be up and running, online, ripping MP3s, burning CDs, watching DVDs and TV, editing video and audio, and creating 3D models in minutes.

Installation:

1. Insert the EvilEntity CDROM, Reboot, and Press "Enter" at introduction screen to begin.
2. Wait
3. You will now see the startup screen
4. Select yes to Partition Setup question if your harddrive is not setup for Linux.
5. Partition hard drive with cfdisk
6. Partition your dark drive option - press "Yes"
7. Select the hard drive to be partitioned- type,"/dev/your device {ex. hda} "
8. Setup up a swap partition (128Mb) hda1 Primary Linux swap 128
9. Setup up a root partition- hda2 Boot Primary Linux 20003.89
10. Write changes to disk - select,"write" then type "yes"
11. Quit cfdisk - select "quit"
12. Format Swap - select partition - select yes
13. Format Root - select root partition - select yes
14. Select additional mount points
15. Format Partitions
16. Install
17. Hit enter a few times
18. wait *(DR-0.2.5 takes 3 minutes 47 seconds to install [Athlon1800+, 7200rpm hd, 52xCD])
19. Reboot
20. Remove CD
21. press enter to reboot
22. login root
23. setup Video, network, users with econfigure
24. login as new user

The mkCDrec utilities are optional for mkCDrec itself, but are an added value for rescue and recovery purposes.

The utilities are staticly compiled and include parted, memtest, partimage, gpart, and recover. Memtest86 is also available for memory testing.

To improve the added value of your recovery/rescue CD-ROM. You will notice that links from mkCDrec CD-ROM are foreseen to the /cdrom/utilities part of the CD-ROM and that man pages of these tools are already available within mkCDrec main toolset.

Without installing the utilities you cannot use them (obvious), but it will not break any other functionality of the mkCDrec tools. Therefore, a full restore remains possible (and disk cloning too), but you will not be able to resize a partition afterwards to name something.

Most of these utilities were compiled as static binaries, therefore, you can use those tools seperately too. If you know any tool which could useful to be included, please let me know... Since mkCDrec_utils_v0.5.7 you will notice that mkCDrec will use isolinux to boot from the CD-ROM instead of using syslinux floppy boot emulation.

But, this will only work if you use mkCDrec_v0.5.7 (or higher) as isolinux was first introduced in v0.5.7.

Parted

The famous Partition Editor of GNU software. The User Manual of parted is already part of mkCDrec.

Memtest

An excellent memory testing tool.

Partition Image

A tool to make/restore partition of msdos/vfat/ext2/reiserfs file systems. The primary purpose to include this tool is to allow a restore of old partition images made by this tool.

Gpart

Guess partition does what it implies. It can even recover destroyed partition tables, and therefore, maybe preventing a full restore. Useful in case if you do not make a mkcdrec on a regular basis.

Recover

An excellent tool to edit an EXT2 file system to recover lost files.

e2salvage

e2salvage is a utility which tries to recover a data from damaged ext2 partition. It may be used when e2fsck does not recover the broken ext2 filesystem. Before trying this tool read the man page (man e2salvage).

ext2resize

ext2resize, ext2prepare and ext2online are useful tools. ext2resize can increase (or decrease) the size of an unmounted ext2 filesystem. Be aware for ext2online one need a kernel patch (not likely installed). By the way, ext2resize does work too on an Ext3 filesystem! Be aware, one needs to apply S. Tweedies kernel patch (ext3) and an updated ext2 filesystem e2fprogs-1.20 or higher (which are ext3 aware). Last 2 requirements are of course only needed in case if you want to work with ext3 filesystems.

memtest86

Memtest86 is thorough, stand alone memory test for x86 architecture computers. BIOS based memory tests are only a quick check and often miss many of the failures that are detected by Memtest86.

chntpw

The offline NT password editor (chntpw) is a little program wich enables you to view and change passwords in a Windows NT SAM user database. For example,

Installation

# cd mkcdrec; tar zxvf mkCDrec_v0.7.9_utils.tar.gz
# ls -l utilities