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From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Stupid newbie tricks
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 96 22:23:19 GMT
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In article <31C83C92.646@cpmt2.cyberport.net>, jshoal@cpmt2.cyberport.net wrote:
>I'm having some installation problems.  Mainly with partitions, like
>is there any way that I can use the 500 unused megs sitting on my new
>hard drive to set up free bsd?  It's already partitioned as an extended
>dos, for windows 95, but I thought fips would let me resize it.. I 
>guess I was wrong..  Any suggestion short of killing the entire drive
>and starting over?  (If this would be more better suited to a different
>newsgroup, I apologize)

Are you using Drivespace (or any other disk compression)?  If so (here's the 
bad news), you're going to have to decompress your drive before you can 
repartition it.  Unfortunately, Drivespace allocates a number of clusters at 
the end of the partition as "unmoveable", meaning fips can't do anything 
with your drive.

The good news is that once you decompress, it's not hard at all to 
repartition.  Just be careful.  :-)

You may want to look into buying Partition Magic.  Even let's you do sneaky 
tricks like changing your cluster sizes, and all of it *non-destructively*. 
Very useful.  

-- 
Conrad Sabatier -- http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads/