Partitioning drives can be a complicated process, if you are starting out on a new system.Using Parted Magic which is a Linux CD/USB/PXE using which you can partition drives, which provides Graphical User Interface for easily partitioning drives even for beginners.Parted Magic completely loads into the system memory and requires atleast 300 MB of RAM.

Parted Magic supports the following: ext2, ext3, ext4, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs+, jfs, linux-swap, ntfs, reiserfs, reiser4, and xfs.It comes with useful programs like (e.g. Partition Image, TestDisk, fdisk, sfdisk, dd, ddrescue, etc.). Check out the complete list of programs here.

Here’s how to partition your HDD.

Boot Your System, using the PartedMagic Live CD.

This is the Desktop of Parted Magic.                           Partitioning Screen

You can also save the routine of moving/saving of the partition using the Save-Files via the Utilities menu.Here’s a tutorial on how to do it.

Check out the complete tutorial on how to partition using PartedMagic here.

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Partedmagic also comes in a Mini Version called MiniPM (mini Parted Magic) which is a 15MB command line OS designed to run programs like Partimage over PXE on computers with very little RAM which includes programs like partimage, bash, lynx, parted, fdisk, sfdisk, cfdisk, ntfs-3g, e2fsprogs, ntfsprogs, vimfm, dosfstools, tar, gzip, bzip, gpm, udpcast, kbd, man, and a full busybox build.