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#! rnews 1572 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!news.u.washington.edu!root 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 Lines: 20 Message-ID: <32271A90.41C67EA6@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <32263139.1B95@aloha.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: troutmask.apl.washington.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b6 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) 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 finger kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~kargl/sgk.html