Hi Willem,

As long as you are managing OK that is fine. I'm an amateur myself and not part of the grml team as such. Just learning as I go along. Mika spends a lot of time answering folk and I like to help when I can - just as Mika and the whole team have helped me.

Look for documentation in /usr/share/doc to help you, e.g. with the Midnight Commander

mc /usr/share/doc

which is considered to be good way for a novice to look around the system. The man pages have lots of good info but are horrendous for a new user.

man ntfsprogs # or ... man ntfsclone

are quite good however. And please, please have a look at dd, the testdisk program, also /usr/share/doc/ddrescue and its related shell script dd_rhelp (I think) if you are planning to use 2 operating systems. They give you the means to rescue and back-up your system by using the grml installation disk.

The X-window program gparted is the equivalent of partition magic in the linux world. (The console program upon which it is based is caleld parted but it will take you longer to learn to use it. gparted also uses the ntfsprogs behind the scenes.) BUT ... the X protocol is clear text and therefore it is discouraged to use X for sysadmin work - it introduces a security vulnerability.

I'm at Birmingham Airport Uk just now. On my way to work in the North Sea so I'll not be able to contribute for a couple of weeks.

Best Wishes Moss

Hi Maurice I did not see your messages until I already started creating a new fat32 disk in windows with partition magic, as you can probably guess, I'm much more comfortable with windows at the moment.