parted magic looked interesting, but doesn't seem to add a coherent interface to everything. has anyone who has used it also used yast's partition manager (from opensuse)? if so, how does it compare? because i'd love a simple, standalone tool (one that i could use on other linuxes) that had all the functionality of yast's pm (eg. it can create encrypted llvm volumes over raid, for example - something that's available in the opensuse installer but seems to be beyond many other distros).