From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 29 01:59:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA12026 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 01:59:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from diablo.ppp.de (diablo.ppp.de [193.141.101.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA12021 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 01:59:28 -0800 (PST) From: Greg Lehey Received: from freebie.lemis.de by diablo.ppp.de with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0vTPFZ-000QrGC; Fri, 29 Nov 96 10:28 MET Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.de (8.8.3/8.6.12) id KAA15935; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 10:03:27 +0100 (MET) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Message-Id: <199611290903.KAA15935@freebie.lemis.de> Subject: Re: win95 In-Reply-To: from Snob Art Genre at "Nov 28, 96 12:35:21 pm" To: ben@narcissus.ml.org (Snob Art Genre) Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 10:03:27 +0100 (MET) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Snob Art Genre writes: > On Thu, 28 Nov 1996, peter grillone wrote: > >> I would like to be able to floppy boot, whenever I wanted to to use Unix. >> is this possible? or am I spitting in the wind? > > It's even better than that. FreeBSD comes with a utility that > repartitions your hard drive without loss of data. This utility will only resize DOS file systems, not Windows 95 file systems. In addition, there are reports of bugs. If you need to make space on the disk, you'll be *far* better off recreating your Windows 95 partitions from scratch. Greg