Look at "Ranish Partition Manager" it might help
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Hoyt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 8:49 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] partitioning
>
> ----- 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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