Partitioning drives for linux and windows 7

I want to know if there is a piece of software that is free that can partition my drives so that I can triple boot OSX lion, windows 7 (which is currently blocking...) Linux (ubuntu puredyne).
A little bit of guidance would be much apprieciated as I have already tried fixing the partition tables MBR in the terminal and ended up disabling windows.
I know how to reinstall windows but what software can partintion the drives for linux as a triple boot?
Thanks.

Well, this is possible using Disk Utility as well as the Linux formatter. However, to triple boot will require special software: The rEFInd Boot Manager - Roderick Smith.

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Le volume dans le lecteur D s'appelle SAMSUNG_LBP
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dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 2048 Feb 28 2005 data/
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Publisher id:
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Abstract File id:
Bibliographic File id:
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Volume set sequence number is: 1
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Volume size is: 239152
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@lolilolicon That explain the result when I mount -t hfs. But the difference in Linux and Windows remain mysterious. How Windows "mount" the CD? I believed it was the equivalent of mount -t iso9660 in Linux but apparently, it is not.
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I read somwhere that it is possible to use an external HD which can be used as an intermediate for documents between a PowerMac and Windows 2000 computer.
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Shell SCript file to this is attached with this post.
===========================================
#!/bin/sh
## ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED
## Copyright 2007 Adobe Systems Incorporated
## All Rights Reserved.
## NOTICE: Adobe permits you to use, modify, and distribute this file
## in accordance with the terms of the license agreement accompanying it.
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esac
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With Regards
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software developer
chennai,

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===========================================
#!/bin/sh
## ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED
## Copyright 2007 Adobe Systems Incorporated
## All Rights Reserved.
## NOTICE: Adobe permits you to use, modify, and distribute this file
## in accordance with the terms of the license agreement accompanying it.
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Make changes to this and let me work with linux
With Regards
Gopinath.A
software developer
chennai,

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