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Guy Fawkes <guy.fawkes@error404.surfbaud.co.uk> wrote in message
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> irony is only acceptable if supported by sufficient wit.......
>
> since _when_ has PM been a part of the operating system.......
>
> it isn't even good bloody practice...

PM is a fancy fdisk, there's fdisk in linux too, partitioning being below
the level of the OS, whatever OS. PM for me is a life saver, NT only
recognised my new 20GB disk as 8GB, I used PM to resize an NTFS partition to
10GB, now disk administrator (NT equiv of fdisk) still thinks that my disk
is 8GB that just happens to have partitions of 0.5GB, 2GB, 4GB, 10GB, 2GB
and 2GB and it's graphical view won't show me the last two, always off the
end of the window no matter how much I stretch it. PM reported errors as it
resized the partition but chkdsk OK'd it and I've been using it ever since.

And what's about good practice? Before DOS 4 you could get 40MB disk but DOS
3.3 and below only supported 32MB partitions, partitioning was essential
then, hell I've seen an ICL DRS95 with 600MB disk, running dos 3.3 with 18
partitions on and a little bit of unpartitioned space at the end.

Using FAT, you can only have 2GB partitions in Windows (4GB in NT). Even
with an OS/File system that can handle the size of your disk, you still HAVE
to partition it, just to get one partition on it, you cannot format the disk
without doing this first.

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