GPartEd Partition Resizing Tool
Support and development personnel are now mainly using virtual platforms for their test environments.
GPartEd is a very handy tool which will allow you to resize your virtual HDD as well as physical ones.
It is a really cool Linux distro which comes as a live boot CD ISO. GPartEd boots into Gnome and runs the Linux PartEd utility to allow you to use a GUI to resize/copy disk partitions... It is seriously good and works with nearly all common partition types including NTFS, FAT32, ext2, ext3, etc.
For virtual machines, you just have to them to boot from the GPartEd ISO, so that you can resize the NTFS partition(s) as required to use the new disk partition size.
If you use this on Vista, you will have to run a repair on Vista afterwards, but it does work.
GPartEd lives here: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
Comments
Many times I had to resize
Many times I had to resize some VM disks. Thanks for this information!
Very Cool.
We have been looking for a tool just like this. Thanks for the info.
Gr8 tool
we face lot of problem s when our vmware hdd is full and we need to expand it. this tool will definately help us.
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GParted , LiveUSB available and new release
Just to let you know that Gparted is available also in LiveUSB support.
Also has been released some new improvements and fixed bug for partition sizes greater than or equal to 1 TeraByte
Link : http://gparted.sourceforge.net/liveusb.php
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