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Partition manager windows 109/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Tonight I will ask the pondering question of why…. One or the other of these is usually preinstalled on any live session ISO, and you can even use them to create, move, and resize Microsoft NTFS partitions from that live session. Either will work on any Linux setup, but KDE Partition Manager will visually integrate with KDE setups seamlessly, while GPartEd will integrate well with any GTK-based desktop (GNOME, Cinnamon, Xfce, MATE, and more). Now that I use Linux with a KDE desktop environment, there’s KDE Partition Manager, and there’s also Gnome Partition Editor (GPartEd). It never really bothered me in my Windows days as long as I could get the job done without having to pay extra for something that would otherwise be thought to be something that should be part of the OS. There are a lot of different categories of important utility programs that are not provided by MS. I guess they don’t because they don’t have to… the aftermarket has it covered, and it would cost money for MS to develop their own program that would not really do anything more than what the aftermarket ones do. Microsoft could provide such a tool if they wanted to, of course. I use them only when I install a new disk and need to partition it to a single partition occupying the whole (or almost the whole) disk. ![]() It also serves the additional purpose of “compressing” the virtual disk so that the space occupied by the new virtual disk becomes smaller, comparable to the actual data it contains (until the next time when it expands again).įor partition purposes I use Acronis Disk Director, also from the bootable iso image (or CD / USB stick) and it works well.Īs you said, the partition tools provided by Windows are simply not good enough. I have found that using a bootable iso image containing Acronis True Image (I made the iso image quite some time ago and have since removed the program from Windows.) to boot the virtual machine, I can clone the data using True Image to a same size or larger virtual disk, that allows for “replacing” the original virtual disk with another of the same or larger size. For my VMware Windows virtual machines using the NTFS file system, as I don’t use virtual disk images of preallocated sizes, as they are used the space consumed by the virtual disks slowly expands, sometimes to a point which the space occupied on the disk by the virtual disk is much larger than the amount of actual data in the virtual disk. ![]()
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