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From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Partition hell (again)
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 96 22:33:55 GMT
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In article <4qc1g1$i0e@ruby.digisys.net>, shoal@digisys.net (Aaron Shoal) wrote:
>        
>Umm.  I don' think my other post went though, but sorry if this is a rerun..
>
>Is there any way to resize my extended win95 partition other than fips?  I 
>want to install freebsd, and I've got 500 megs free on a new hard drive, but
>it's all tied up in a sucky dos partition.  Anything I can do other than 
>delete the old partition? Fips wont work with it because it's extended..

I used fips to repartition a 1.6 gig, single-partition drive, believe it or 
not (this was before I bought Partition Magic).  Not sure if the old version 
of fips can handle this or not, but I managed to find a later one that did 
(version 1.5, I think it was).  Sorry, don't remember where I found it.  Try 
archie.

I later used Partition Magic, just to make sure everything was OK (which it 
was).

Again, as I mentioned in another post, if your drive is compressed, you'll 
have to decompress first, due to the "unmoveable clusters" problem (although 
I think PM is supposed to even work on compressed drives; sounds risky as 
hell, though).

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