Disk Partitioning with Knoppix

One of the many good things you can do wih a Knoppix bootable CD is repartition your hard drive. It’s a fairly quick and easy process but remember to always backup your data before messing around with your hard drive partitions.

If you don't have a copy of knoppix head over to knopper.net and download the ISO image.

What I’m going to do is resize one of my partitions so that I can create a second partition from the new unallocated space. The first thing you do is boot to your Knoppix CD. The boot process can take a couple of minutes since you are running entirely off your CD-ROM drive which is considerably slower than your hard drive but once you get knoppix up and running you’ll need to open up a console…
Click this button on the bottom of the screen.

When the console opens type SU and hit enter. This logs you on as super user.

Then type qtparted and hit enter.

The program will load showing a list of your hard drives on the left. I’ve selected my primary partition. The partitions details show up on the right. Next you’ll want to click on the Operation menu and select Resize.

In the resize dialog you can click and drag a new partition size at the top or manually specify the size of the partion on the bottom. When you are finished click OK.

After resizing the partition then you can go back and select the unallocated space. Then click
on the Operation menu and select Create.

The Create dialog will display. For a windows partition I’ve chosen to create a Primary NTFS partition. Click OK to close the dialog.

At this point no changes have been made to the hard drive. To apply the changes choose Commit from the file menu.

It may take a few minutes to apply the changes.