Gparted is an excellent partition manager from the world of free software . Gparted is available as a live-cd and offers similar functionalities like partition magic . Gparted unlike partition magic , is free from compatibility issues . Gparted supports almost all filesystems like NTFS,FAT32,EXT4,EXT3,HFS and much more . Gparted is available for both windows and linux operating systems . Here is the tutorial that covers how to partition harddisk with gparted .
