Pj wrote:
> I use Windows version Partition 5.0 to re-partition on the fly. Unless
> Windows partition is full, you should be able to reduce the size of FAT
> or FAT32 and increase the size of Ext2. If you want to contact me
> privately I can try to walk thru it step by step.
Do you mean Partition Magic 5.0?
PM is an easy tool to use and although it was recommended to always make
backups before resizing partitions, I used 3.0 many times for creating
partitions, and resizing live partitions, without making any backups, and
never had a problem. 3.0 was only really advantageous for resizing live
partitions, though.
However, I seem to recall hearing a couple or few months ago that PQ ported
PM to Linux; therefore, before purcashing, check out this aspect, for anyone
interested in investigating this tool.
mike
> Pj
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> lorne schachter wrote:
> >
> > I've got an interesting problem. 1 have a 2-disk system, 12G and 4G
> > split as follows:
> >
> > cdrive - 8G Windows98 and 4G Linux
> > ddrive - 3G Windows98 and 1G Linux.
> >
> > I boot Windows directly and Linux from a floppy (because I'm past the
> > 1024 sector boundary?).
> > What I want to do is to shrink the Windows partition (I'm only using
> > about 2G of it) and use the
> > rest as more Linux partition. I'm trying to run Partiton Magic to do
> > this, but it keeps telling me
> > that my partition table is bad. It might be, but that's the only place
> > where there's a problem
> > since the two OS's run fine on their own.
> >
> > The partition table is as follows (for the first drive)
> >
> > partition 1 0 - 0 - 0 thru 1023-255-63
> > partition 2 1023 - 0 - 0 thru 1023-255-63
> >
> > Clearly, this information is bad, but it won't let me change it to more
> > reasonable values.
> >
> > Any one have any ideas - my next step is to get ahold of the Power Quest
> > folks for their
> > help.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Lorne
> >
> > --
> > Lorne Schachter
> > (732) 819-0460, (732)819-0460 (FAX)
> > http://www.intact.com/~lorne
