Re: Can it be done safely

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1 total messages Started by Mike Humphrey Mon, 19 Jun 1995 00:00

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Author: Mike Humphrey
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 00:00

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On Sun, 18 Jun 1995, E. Kelly Bond wrote:
> Stephen Davison <stephen@emissive.demon.co.uk> writes:
> >The docs tell me how to set up partitions using FDISK.  This will 
> >result in alll my data going out of the window.  I can not do a backup 
> >of my disk, as 800Mb is a lot of HD disks!  (My old Archive Viper died 
> >some time ago!)
> >Is there some way of doing it without losing all my data.  
> 
> Removing f would only clear space in the extended partition and Linux 
> (using a linux filesystem) would not be able to use it. 

Linux will use logical partitons in the extended partition. The only 
problem is that the latest version of fdisk is broken and doesn't see 
them. If you get a working version of fdisk it will work.

Alternatively, you can use FIPS to reduce the size of the primary 
partition, leaving space for a primary Linux partition.  Or, if you can 
get all the data into the primary partition (try pkzip), you can remove 
all the logical drives and the extended partition and create a smaller 
one. 

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