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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.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!cs.uoregon.edu!sgigate.sgi.com!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!mypc 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 Organization: What? Me, organize? Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4qcjkj$2ds_012@mypc.neosoft.com> References: <4qc1g1$i0e@ruby.digisys.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.186 X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #1 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). [ posted and mailed ] -- Conrad Sabatier -- http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads/