Re: Partitioning

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From: George Durbridge
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 00:00

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Michael Strates (mstrates@minkirri.apana.org.au) wrote:
: On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, M.L. Scott wrote:
: 
: > (i) What is the best program for partioning a hard drive? 
: 
: If you want to partition an existing MS-DOS partition into a MS-DOS
: partition and a Linux partition, your only free choice is FIPS.

Yes, if it's a fat16 partition.  If it's a fat32 partition, your only 
free choice is backup + fdisk.
 
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From: gdurb@melbourne.dialix.com.au (George Durbridge)
Subject: Re: Partitioning
Date: 1997/12/03
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