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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Partition help in FreeBSD Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 06:57:42 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 35 Message-ID: <325606E6.3F3E@www.play-hookey.com> References: <324aab95.15254412@news.clover.net> <52u5mb$1uh@anorak.coverform.lan> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Brian Somers wrote: > > 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 :) > I think you'll find that FIPS works on primary partitions only. At least this was true for 2.1R; they may have changed that since I installed FreeBSD on my systems. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |