>Christopher J. & JoLene J. McFarland wrote:
>>
>> Hello, real newbie here.
>> So new I don't even have Linux on my box yet. :)
>> OK, here's my question:
>> I have Win95 installed on my hard drive on one (very large)
partition on my hard drive, which is approx 1.6 gigs total. Now, I just got
this system tweeked to my liking, after about the 4th reformat since my
marriage. (and I got married 3 months ago! Hows that for Microshmucks
"reliability" for you.) Further, my wife would kill me if I took all the
stuff which she *just* started learning and tossed it out. Further, that I
*finally* found an office suite that's so close to my own tast
>> Down to the question. Is there a freeware way to re-partition
the hard drive without losing the data that is already there? I'm basicly
looking for a "Partition Magic"-type freeware.
>> If there isn't a way to do it, that's cool, I'll just wait until
I have enough money to buy a bigger hard drive, Partition Magic, and
whatever the premier Linux release is available at the time. (probably Red
Hat)
>> Thanks for any help you can give me.
>>
>> Chris
>
>fips will do this for you, look for it on most cdrom distributions.
>Basically you put fips and "restorrb"(I think that's the name of it) on
>a win95 formatted boot disk. fips will make a copy of your old partition
>table on the boot disk and then you can re-partition. If you change your
>mind you can restore your partition table from the disk.
AHHH, wait! there is supposedly another ver of fat32, "fat32c" I believe.
it's apparently brand new. in essence it moves the root dir info and
something else (I can't remember at the moment) to the end of the partition.
if your new computer uses this type of fat fips may chop off the last few
sectors to resize the partition, destroying your data anyway. I'm not too
sure if the previously mentioned scenario would happen but just so you know
the risk. btw PQ says that partition magic DOES deal with this
correctly.best of luck.
reds
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