Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 08:13:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com> To: rnordier@iafrica.com (Robert Nordier) Cc: bob@luke.pmr.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help! I need to shrink a DOS partition. Message-ID: <199605121213.IAA02673@shell.monmouth.com> In-Reply-To: <199605120205.EAA05789@eac.iafrica.com> from "Robert Nordier" at May 12, 96 04:05:01 am
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> > Bob Willcox wrote: > > > > My notebook's harddrive is one big DOS partion with very little > > used in it. I would like to shrink it down so that I can install > > FreeBSD, and would like to do it so that I don't have to reinstall > > DOS and Windows :-) Seems I remember that there is a way to do > > this but my memory (and search) fail me. Can someone give me a > > pointer (a program name would be fine). > > The name you are looking for is FIPS. (There are other programs, > but most people use this one.) > You should really approach FIPS with caution, however, as it > relies on a sort of trick to do its magic. Having been FIPS-ed, > your DOS partition is much more vulnerable to damage, because your > DOS filesystem parameters are no longer standard. > [Note to the Powers That Be: All this probably needs to be FAQ-ed, > if it isn't there already.] > Note to the Powers That Be: Another alternative is the commercial program Partiton Magic (which will resize DOS and OS/2 partitions including HPFS) and may be more reliable and less prone to FreeBSD FAT problems than FIPS since it can change fat clustersize. Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Pechter/Carolyn Pechter | 17 Meredith Drive, Tinton Falls, NJ 07724, 908-389-3592 | pechter@shell.monmouth.com I'll run Win96 on my box when you pry the keyboard from my cold, dead hands. FreeBSD, OS/2, CP/M, RT11, spoken here.
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