At 02:37 AM 10/25/99 +0000, Sheldon Lee Wen wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> Currently the only way to do this in a non-destructive way is to use
>> Partition Magic 4.0 from Powerquest. Disk drake, disk druid is
>> destructive at this point. You can use fips (it is in the Mandrake CD
>> DOSUTILS directory) what is non -destructive, but there is *a lot* of
>> things you have to adjust before and after the resizing. PartMag
>> does everything automagically. (You need to have Win or DOS
>> partition or a special floppy to use this though)
>
>
>Don't do this to a linux partition though. It says it can handle it
>but it's destroyed many a file on my filesystem on every occasion I
>tried
>it. I ended up reinstalling linux.
What, specifically, happened? I've done this a number of times, and I
haven't had any problems.
