Re: [Freedos-user] edit partitions through usb.

2012-04-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Blatant ad for an obvious solution: I got the impression that the ext2 partitions are boring for this user and can be shrunk or even deleted. For that, a GPARTED bootable CD, DVD or USB stick provides a free and easy tool which works for a number of interfaces... USB should be no problem :-)

[Freedos-user] edit partitions through usb.

2012-04-18 Thread kurt godel
I just got an external hdd enclosure; had a hard drive from a machine with a blown mobo, and put it in the enclosure. Problem is it still has an ext3/ext4 linux on it, eating up 25 GB. I can read write to the dos partition with it's logical drives, but using the ext is a no-no. My question is

Re: [Freedos-user] edit partitions through usb.

2012-04-18 Thread Felix Miata
On 2012/04/18 16:55 (GMT-0400) kurt godel composed: I just got an external hdd enclosure; had a hard drive from a machine with a blown mobo, and put it in the enclosure. Problem is it still has an ext3/ext4 linux on it, eating up 25 GB. I can read write to the dos partition with it's logical

Re: [Freedos-user] edit partitions through usb.

2012-04-18 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote: On 2012/04/18 16:55 (GMT-0400) kurt godel composed: I just got an external hdd enclosure; had a hard drive from a machine with a blown mobo, and put it in the enclosure. Problem is it still has an ext3/ext4 linux

Re: [Freedos-user] edit partitions through usb.

2012-04-18 Thread dmccunney
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote: On 2012/04/18 16:55 (GMT-0400) kurt godel composed: If the EXT2 has something important on it and you don't have Linux installed, boot a live Linux CD an