Awesome distribution! Minus the fact that every time I boot into it, it gives me a French keyboard layout... I think it may be because I used MultiSystem to stuff the ISO onto my USB Linux stick of doom (16GB flash drive with nothing but Linux distributions, 32 and 64 bit versions). So if I have to label a partition in GParted within Parted Magic, I have to change the keyboard layout before doing so.
Anyway, the two things I use Parted Magic for is partitioning a hard drive (or the flushing the partition map) or looking at the SMART results from the hard drive.
The program for the SMART status is called GSmartControl. I believe it was originally meant for Debian, but I found it in the openSUSE repository for use with openSUSE.
I've been able to install GParted on openSUSE before, but I think that was the 32 bit version of openSUSE. I might have done it once with 64 bit, but I don't remember clearly. I'd like to though, since the parted tool in YaST doesn't allow me to label a partition (unless I am totally missing something).
Now that I'm moving further away from the original topic...
I remembered reading someone complaining that openSUSE has "two" control panels... The standard one and YaST. What they don't understand is that the standard control panel is for the user (and doesn't require a password) and that YaST is root level controls (you have to type in the root password to get into YaST. They either need to suck it up or find another distribution - stop complaining because you don't understand the reasoning behind it.
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