On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 16:13:39 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> Partioning of an HDD simply consists of rewriting the partition
> table located at the beginning of the drive.
> Every version of DOS includes Fdisk.exe.
> Every version of Linux includes Fdisk.
> There are also many freely available (or shareware), "third party"
> disk partitioning programs.
> My question is simply this.
> What is it about "Partition Magic" which makes it more desirable than:
> Fdisk.exe (included with the version of DOS being used)
> Fdisk (included with the version of Linux being used)
None of those can resize a partition with files in place, with no
loss of stored data; that "resize" is either larger or smaller.
> Or any of these???
> http://ftp.in-span.net/pub/mirrors/simtelnet/msdos/diskutil/aefdsk17.zip
> http://ftp.in-span.net/pub/mirrors/simtelnet/msdos/diskutil/bing118.zip
> http://ftp.in-span.net/pub/mirrors/simtelnet/msdos/diskutil/edpart.zip
> http://ftp.in-span.net/pub/mirrors/simtelnet/msdos/diskutil/fips15.zip
> http://ftp.in-span.net/pub/mirrors/simtelnet/msdos/diskutil/partit10.zip
> http://ftp.in-span.net/pub/mirrors/simtelnet/msdos/diskutil/partitn.zip
Since I've never even heard of any of those, I can't answer.
l.d.
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