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Article #57846Re: Dynamic repartitioning - HOW?
From: John Gotts
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 00:00
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On Thu, 22 Aug 1996 01:02:49 +1000, Gary Curtis <opus.logic@mailbox.uq.edu.au> wrote: >I read somewhere (this group or c.o.l.m) that it is possible to change >the size of a DOS partition (downward) to make room for a second >partition (for Linux of course). Existing data on the DOS partition >is NOT LOST! I didn't need to do this at the time, so (like an idiot) >took no notice. The name of the utility is FIPS. Looks for FIPS.EXE somewhere in your distribution. You need to DEFRAG your DOS partition before resizing it. Also, be very careful when running FIPS. It's best to back up all data when messing with partition tables. I take no responsibility for any lost data. :-) Have fun! -- John GOTTS <jgotts@engin.umich.edu> http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~jgotts
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,a52bd53b39aa13e9 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: jgotts@spot.engin.umich.edu (John Gotts) Subject: Re: Dynamic repartitioning - HOW? Date: 1996/08/22 Message-ID: <slrn51orsb.k31.jgotts@spot.engin.umich.edu> X-Deja-AN: 175832964 references: <321B2519.377F5652@mailbox.uq.edu.au> organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor reply-to: jgotts@engin.umich.edu newsgroups: aus.computers.linux