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From: Anthony Jenkins <ajenkins@auburn.campus.mci.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Partitioning the hard drive.
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 18:25:30 -0600
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As I understand it, there are relatively safe (yet disclaimer-laden)
programs to repartition a harddrive without destroying existing data. 
My dual-partition system hasn't whimpered yet, though I split a virgin
drive into two partitions, knowing I'd be trying out Win95 & FreeBSD on
my new PC.  Search for "partition" at www.shareware.com for some
programs (since I don't know any offhand), virus-check 'em & (after
backing up your system), try it.

Anthony

phattman@Phatt.daddy wrote:
> 
>         I've just gotten interested in using FreeBSD and I'm a little sketchy
> on how to install it. You need to have like a whole new partition for
> it but i've heard stories about people partitioning hard drives and it
> hasn't worked for the best. Is there a safe way to partition the hard
> drive or an easy way? I run windows 95 and I want to put it on the
> same hard drive. If you partition the hard drive and it screws up
> somehow, does it affect the other files, i.e. corrupt them, denying
> access to them, lose them, can't get into system or something?
> 
> ddixon@skylink.net