From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 21 15: 0:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (ha1.rdc1.tn.home.com [24.2.7.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C87CD155E9 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 15:00:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from williamsl@Home.Com) Received: from [192.168.1.10] ([24.4.115.31]) by mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <20000121230049.FONV9818.mail.rdc1.tn.home.com@[24.4.115.31]>; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 15:00:49 -0800 Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 18:00:49 -0500 From: Ben WIlliams X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.34a) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 Reply-To: Ben WIlliams X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <6750.000121@Home.Com> To: John Michelini Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Using FDISK and FIPS In-reply-To: <3887BF8D.A05E58D3@ibm.net> References: <3887BF8D.A05E58D3@ibm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Friday, January 21, 2000 No. FIPS will create a second (third, fourth, +1 of however many partitions you already have definded) partition on your drive. You MUST defrag your current fs BEFORE running FIPS or you will LOOSE the data at the end of the partition. That's the beauty of FIPS. The ability to create another partiton on your drive without having to use fdisk and delete existing partitions. Thursday, January 20, 2000, 9:08:13 PM, John Michelini wrote: JM> Correct me if I am wrong: I have a WIN95 disk with extended partition. JM> Do I use FDISK to delete the extended partition and then use FIPS to JM> repartition the drive (after defragging) for FreeBSD? -- Ben mailto:williamsl@Home.Com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message