----- Original Message -----
From: Sheldon Lee Wen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] partitioning
> Mage,
>
> > I installed 6.1 a couple of weeks ago and liked it so
> Why not 7.0 ?
>
> > Is there a utility (like the commercial product
> > PartitionMagic) that will allow me to resize the
> > partition without having to reinstall?
>
> DON'T use PM to resize a linux partition. While they
> apparently have ext2 support I actually tried using it once
> to resize my linux root partition and it screwed up alot
> of files. Their support for ext2 isn't great, unless they've
> fixed it since then.
I am currently evaluating PM 5.0 for a magazine review. Support for ext2
partitions is improved, and they even have a Linux "install" on the CD. I
would recommend PM 5.0 (I too had poor results with 4.01 and lower).
Hoyt
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