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From: "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Reclaiming disk space
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 09:45:04 -0700
Organization: Applied Physics Lab
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TheDuck wrote:
> 
> I've given up on installing FreeBSD, so sue me, but I've decided to give
> Linux a shot. Anyway, my problem now is that I used FIPS to resize my
> partition table, and lost about 400 MB in the process! I can't get it
> back, either through DOS fdisk, or FIPS. I really don't want to have to
> back up my hard disk, and format. I saw in another post that I could use
> fdisk /mbr to recreate the Boot Record, but will this cause any problems
> with Win95? And will it solve my problem?

This does not appear to be a FreeBSD related question.  Linux
installation
questions should be directed at a newgroup about Linux.  BTW, I believe
your only option is to backup and reformat.

-- 
Steve

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