Linux and Unix recommended partition utility

[zillah]

At work I could not use Hiren’s Boot CD:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hiren.thanki/bootcd.html

to display Solaris partition for SunFire V20Z server ,,,I had to use Mandrake 10 utility to do that,,,,,

What is the recommended partition utility, when we want to deal with these two OSs (Linux, and Unix).

[AljoshaNL]

I use cfdisk,but I’m a newbie
Maybe some ppl know it better than me

[zillah]

cfdisk,

What is cfdisk ?

[trickster]

[quote author=zillah link=board=2;threadid=10817;start=0#msg96993 date=1133110010]
At work I could not use Hiren’s Boot CD:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hiren.thanki/bootcd.html

to display Solaris partition for SunFire V20Z server ,,,I had to use Mandrake 10 utility to do that,,,,,

What is the recommended partition utility, when we want to deal with these two OSs (Linux, and Unix).

[/quote]
What is it you want to do? When you say "display a solaris partition", you mean show the partition table and see the partition there, access the partition from a non-solaris system, or something else entirely?

[zillah]

you mean show the partition table and see the partition there,[/quote
Because solaris has not been installed proberly, therefore I was looking to delete all partitions and start form scratch.]

[trickster]

Whatever version of Linux you install will most likely show you what partitions are available, and give you the option to delete any partition you want.

[AljoshaNL]

[quote author=zillah link=board=2;threadid=10817;start=0#msg96995 date=1133116403]

cfdisk,

What is cfdisk ?
[/quote]
It’s a console-based partition manager. Start is by typing ‘cfdisk’ in the terminal (without the quotes)