How To Create A 1gig Partation

[DarkestDream]

im VERY new at creating partation, at g4, many g4ers suggest to use Partation, but tend to have a panic to screw up. all i want to create a 1gig partation for images, i very low on space, sometime i went overboard 1 gig iun whole harddrive, so i want one gig to keep in control.

im sure mbover will explain and with his website too

[Guest fbelzile]

Hey DarkestDream How's it going?

There are 2 types of partitioners. Destructive and Non-destructive.

Destructive means you have to reformat the whole drive to create the partition. Non-destructive means you can partition but not have the worry of loosing any data or formating.

Partition Magic is a non-destructive partitioner but it costs money.

QTParted is a program included inside lots of Linux disributions. You might be able to find a Live Linux distro with it. This way of doing it is free.

Hopes this helps those are two non-destructive partitioners.

[Falcon1986]

Do you have unpartitioned space that you can use or is the drive you are using already partitioned and formatted?

[DarkestDream]

my whole harddrive is one partation, i want to take that part of partation and create 2nd partation for images.

all i want a Non-destructive partitioner

[quickbasicguru]

QTParted is what I use, you can resize certain partitions with it (Like NTFS, FAT32 also I think)

A easy way to get it is Knoppix.

But with any partitioning software, back up important data just in case. (I have resize a partition once, and had no problems, but I made a back up just in case)