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Diskdrake

The purpose of the DiskDrake project is to simplify hard disk partitioning. DiskDrake is graphical, simple and powerful, and licensed under the GPL (GNU General Public License).

Two skill levels are available (newbie, expert).

It's written entirely in Perl and Perl/Gtk.

DiskDrake is a project from Mandriva, the company behind the popular Mandriva Linux operating-system.

1 Features
2 CLI options
3 Contacts
4 Screenshots

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Features

DiskDrake can, with a nice contextual menu, accomplish the following:

create partitions
delete partitions
change type of partition
format partitions
assign a mount point
propose a list of classic mount points and verify the mount point is valid mount partitions
resize fat partitions
resize partitions (when not caring loosing its data)
clear partition table
auto allocation (usefull for install)
write fstab

The Expert button toggles between expert and normal mode. Some changes in information displayed:

when you click (or focus) the drive tab (eg: hda), you get information about your drive: size, geometry (cylinders/sectors/heads number), type (eg: IBM DDRS-39130D), and bus/id. In normal mode you have only the size.
the windows drive letter (eg: C: D: ...)
the `start sector' information from normal mode, it still appears in expert mode
the start & end cylinder of each partition is now displayed in expert mode
the type is displayed numerically in expert mode

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CLI options

diskdrake --hd: Create, delete and resize hard disk partitions.
diskdrake --removable=hdX: Set where your CD-Rom drive is mounted. ( [fill in X as applicable, e.g. hdc] )
diskdrake --removable=hdX: Set where your CD/DVD burner is mounted. ( [fill in X as applicable, e.g. hdd] )
diskdrake --removable=fd0: Set where your floppy drive is mounted.
diskdrake --nfs: Set NFS mount points.
diskdrake --smb: Set Samba mount points.
diskdrake --dav: Set WebDAV mount points.
diskdrake --fileshare: Set up sharing of your hard disk partitions.