Thanks Ben,

  FIPS is what I couldn't remember.


Stephen Ingham
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Lincoln Space Surveillance Complex
Westford, Massachusetts

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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 3:07 PM
To: Greater NH Linux Users' Group
Subject: Re: Windows Partition Spliter


On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, at 2:56pm, Ingham, Stephen wrote:
> I've heard of a Linux utility that will reduce the size a windows
> partition that takes up an entire hard. So that Linux can be installed on
> the left over space.
> 
> But I can't remember the name of it. Does anybody know?

  parted (partition editor) runs under Linux and can do some of this.  It is
a GNU program.  I believe it supports FAT, FAT32, and ext2.  It does not
support NTFS.

  Some distributions offer you the option of resizing existing partitions as
part of their install program.

  ext2/ext3, XFs, and reiserfs all have their own resize tools.

  There is a program calls "FIPS" that runs under MS-DOS which can shrink
FAT filesystems.

  There is commercial software (Partition Magic and Partition Commander are
two I know of) that can resize all sorts of filesystems.  Such software
typically requires MS-Windows, or at least MS-DOS.

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