On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 17:48:07 -0800, L.D. Best wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 16:13:39 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>> Partioning of an HDD simply consists of rewriting the partition >> table located at the beginning of the drive. >> Every version of DOS includes Fdisk.exe. >> Every version of Linux includes Fdisk. >> There are also many freely available (or shareware), "third party" >> disk partitioning programs. >> My question is simply this. >> What is it about "Partition Magic" which makes it more desirable than: >> Fdisk.exe (included with the version of DOS being used) >> Fdisk (included with the version of Linux being used) > None of those can resize a partition with files in place, with no > loss of stored data; that "resize" is either larger or smaller. IIRC, FIPS can do that. >> Or any of these??? >> http://ftp.in-span.net/pub/mirrors/simtelnet/msdos/diskutil/aefdsk17.zip >> http://ftp.in-span.net/pub/mirrors/simtelnet/msdos/diskutil/bing118.zip >> http://ftp.in-span.net/pub/mirrors/simtelnet/msdos/diskutil/edpart.zip >> http://ftp.in-span.net/pub/mirrors/simtelnet/msdos/diskutil/fips15.zip >> http://ftp.in-span.net/pub/mirrors/simtelnet/msdos/diskutil/partit10.zip >> http://ftp.in-span.net/pub/mirrors/simtelnet/msdos/diskutil/partitn.zip > Since I've never even heard of any of those, I can't answer. -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm
