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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Partition help in FreeBSD
Date: 2 Oct 1996 16:36:27 GMT
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In article <324aab95.15254412@news.clover.net>,
	dwchan@telerama.lm.com (Dominic W. Chan) writes:

> drive 1 - which is on my primary controller on the mother board as a
> slave (Seagate Metalist 2.1G) it is parition in the following way
> 
> 7 - drive d: 200mb --> Primary Dos Partition (FAT) WinNT 3.51 WS
> 8 - drive j: 500mb --> Extended, logical (FAT) WinNT 4.0 WS
> 9.- drive k: 500mb --> Extended, logical (FAT)
> 10.- drive l: 500mb --> Extended, logical (FAT)
> 11.- drive m: 310mb --> Extended, logical (FAT)
> 
> I try to delete my logical partition (l, & m) under both fdisk and
> WinNT OS.
[.....]

Try FIPS from the tools directory on the CD-ROM.  You'll have to remove
your logical drives l: & m: and then reduce your extended drive by 810
Mb.

I'm afraid that this is all AFAIK.  I've never used FIPS - I have a
(relatively) large tape drive :)

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....