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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.ultranet.com!homer.alpha.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.mathworks.com!hunter.premier.net!insync!uuneo.neosoft.com!mypc 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 Organization: What? Me, organize? Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4qcj0n$2ds_008@mypc.neosoft.com> References: <31C6A7A0.7DE14518@FreeBSD.org> <8791dl9qh7.fsf@mirriwinni.cse.rmit.edu.au> <4q6qe3$3na@church.dcss.McMaster.CA> <31C762EC.3F54BC7E@ucs.mun.ca> <31C83C92.646@cpmt2.cyberport.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.186 X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #1 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/