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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!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!oleane!francenet.fr!itesec!keltia.frmug.fr.net!sidhe.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Making another partition Date: 10 May 1996 16:45:31 GMT Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4mvrrb$okp@sidhe.freenix.fr> References: <mozart-0805961121090001@madama.butterfly.net> <4mqud4$cva@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <4mvij5$q5i@news.scruz.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit [courtesy cc of this posting sent to cited author via email] In article <4mvij5$q5i@news.scruz.net>, Bill Cox <bill@qstools.com> wrote: > I'd look into Partition Magic, a commercial DOS/win3.1 product. > Friends rave about it. You can resize partitions without > destroying the data inside. FIPS (see the tools/ directory on any FreeBSD CD-ROM) can do it too. For free. The only caveat is that there is a bug in the msdosfs code that will prevent read/write use of the shrinked DOS partition. The bug bug is related to the way DOS size the cluster size when "format"-ting the disk. msdosfs is now being rewritten with many more features including VFAT support. Don't hold you breath as the author has not yet finished it but it will be done. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=-=- FreeBSD 2.x FAQ maintainer -=-=- roberto@freebsd.org -=-=-=-=-=- Support The Free UNIX Systems ! FreeBSD Linux NetBSD -=-=-=-=-=-