Re: I need a disk partitioner!!!

1997-07-03 Thread stick
I'm sure FIPS does a good job for a one off re-size of a partition, but I've never used it, so I wouldn't like to comment. I've used FIPS some a couple of years ago - I really liked what it can do. However, the is one caveat - when shrinking a partition with a FAT file system, remember that

Re: I need a disk partitioner!!!

1997-07-03 Thread Dima
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure FIPS does a good job for a one off re-size of a partition, but I've never used it, so I wouldn't like to comment. I've used FIPS some a couple of years ago - I really liked what it can do. However, the is one caveat - when shrinking a partition with a

Re: I need a disk partitioner!!!

1997-07-03 Thread Shaya Potter
On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Dima wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure FIPS does a good job for a one off re-size of a partition, but I've never used it, so I wouldn't like to comment. I've used FIPS some a couple of years ago - I really liked what it can do. However, the is one

Re: I need a disk partitioner!!!

1997-07-03 Thread Dima
Shaya Potter wrote: On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Dima wrote: Partition Magic OTOH does change cluster size and supports several partition types, including ext2 (as of PM 3.0) I don't think it support ext2, it just recognizes it. From checking their web pages, I don't see any mention of being

I need a disk partitioner!!!

1997-07-01 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
I need to know where to find a program that could be use to split a windows 95 partition without deleting the information in it. I need that in order to install linux in my computer. - Get Your *Web-Based* Free Email at

Re: I need a disk partitioner!!!

1997-07-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Eliezer Figueroa wrote: I need to know where to find a program that could be use to split a windows 95 partition without deleting the information in it. I need that in order to install linux in my computer. Two possibilities come to mind: FIPS (at ftp.debian.org

Re: I need a disk partitioner!!!

1997-07-01 Thread Britton
I think the program you are looking for is called fips. I don't know quite where to find it. It could be touchy to use Win95 doesn't get along well with other systems, and I don't know how it would react to having it's partition resized. On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Eliezer Figueroa wrote: I

Re: I need a disk partitioner!!!

1997-07-01 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eliezer Figueroa) writes: I need to know where to find a program that could be use to split a windows 95 partition without deleting the information in it. I need that in order to install linux in my computer. Try

Re: I need a disk partitioner!!!

1997-07-01 Thread Stephen Witt
fips works fine with Win95. Last September I had a new Dell with a 3 GB disk and Win95 installed and defragmented the disk with some Norton utility program and then resized the partion down to 1 GB and then created three more partitions for Linux (/root, swap, and /usr) and it worked just

Re: I need a disk partitioner!!!

1997-07-01 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
BN == Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BN Two possibilities come to mind: BN FIPS (at ftp.debian.org in /debian/tools), [...] BN Partition Magic, a commercial program which [...] Does both of these also support moving a partition, not just resizing? -- SSM - Stig Sandbeck Mathisen

Re: I need a disk partitioner!!!

1997-07-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jul 01, 1997 at 11:00:22AM +0200, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: BN == Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BN Two possibilities come to mind: BN FIPS (at ftp.debian.org in /debian/tools), [...] BN Partition Magic, a commercial program which [...] Does both of these also

Re: I need a disk partitioner!!!

1997-07-01 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
HM == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: HM Partition Magic 2 at least won't move or do anything to ext2fs. Oh, my fault, I'll specify I have a FAT partition at the end of a large disk, and to be able to boot from that partition (at least from NT), it has to be at the start of the

RE: I need a disk partitioner!!!

1997-07-01 Thread Matthew
Subject: Re: I need a disk partitioner!!! On Tue, Jul 01, 1997 at 11:00:22AM +0200, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: BN == Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BN Two possibilities come to mind: BN FIPS (at ftp.debian.org in /debian/tools), [...] BN Partition Magic, a commercial program

Re: I need a disk partitioner!!!

1997-07-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Tue, Jul 01, 1997 at 11:00:22AM +0200, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: BN == Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BN Two possibilities come to mind: BN FIPS (at ftp.debian.org in /debian/tools), [...] BN Partition Magic, a commercial