On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Sheldon Lee Wen 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.
Partition Magic did this to you? I've used it to resize ext2 partitions a
number of times and it's worked like magic every single time... <shrug>
Mind you, I've been using PM for a few years and it has *never* destroyed
any data for me, regardless of the filesystem involved (ext2, fat, hpfs,
and fat32 I've used it on).
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