>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.
>
Yea, me too.. Resized via PM 4.0.. Worked like a charm.
Been using PM since it came out for OS/2 as PM 2.0..
Love it. Need it... Use it every 200 days or so, but always worth it..
Alan.
