From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 22 08:57:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA07005 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 08:57:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.monmouth.com (pechter@shell.monmouth.com [205.164.220.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA06998 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 08:56:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from pechter@localhost) by shell.monmouth.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) id LAA00811; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 11:51:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter Message-Id: <199610221551.LAA00811@shell.monmouth.com> Subject: Re: Making a DOS Partition writeable To: nadav@barcode.co.il (Nadav Eiron) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 11:51:14 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <326C97A4.D2D@barcode.co.il> from "Nadav Eiron" at Oct 22, 96 11:45:08 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > There is a commercial DOS software package called PartitionMagic (see > http://www.powerquest.com) that costs about $50 and can edit partitions > without reformatting (it can shrink/expand DOS and HPFS partition and > move around many other types of partitions, though not FreeBSD yet - > maybe someone shoul talk to them as they support linux and SCO > partiotions). I never had a problem with it, and it is highly > recommended if you find yourself repartitioning disks often (once a year > is often enough for me). Are you sure the size linux partitions -- or just recognize them in the screen. I've used the program on OS/2 HPFS and DOS FAT with great success -- but it occasionally gives the same error message on mounting the resized partition that they're seeing with FIPS. (this is with v2.03)... Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Pechter/Carolyn Pechter | 17 Meredith Drive, Tinton Falls, NJ 07724, 908-389-3592 | pechter@shell.monmouth.com This message brought to you by the letters VAX and the numbers 11 and 780.