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From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Making another partition
Date: 10 May 1996 16:45:31 GMT
Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants
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In article <4mvij5$q5i@news.scruz.net>, Bill Cox <bill@qstools.com> wrote:
> I'd look into Partition Magic, a commercial DOS/win3.1 product.
> Friends rave about it.  You can resize partitions without
> destroying the data inside.

FIPS (see the tools/  directory on any FreeBSD  CD-ROM) can do it  too. For
free. The only caveat is that there is a bug in the  msdosfs code that will
prevent read/write  use of  the shrinked  DOS   partition. The bug  bug  is
related to the way DOS size the cluster size when "format"-ting the disk. 

msdosfs is now   being rewritten with   many more  features  including VFAT
support. Don't hold you breath as the author has not yet finished it but it
will be done.
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