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 menti

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. Howe

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 parti

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 t

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> Part

RE: I need a disk partitioner!!!

1997-07-01 Thread Matthew
eck Mathisen >Cc: Debian User List >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>

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 star

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 bot

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

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 fi

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 "http://www.student.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~schae

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 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.o