Lan Barnes wrote: > On Sun, February 11, 2007 10:41 pm, Carl Lowenstein wrote: >> On 2/11/07, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> My wife is buying a new laptop for her work. She wants not to leave >>> Linux >>> behind, but needs the windoze. Everything is Vista now (apparently the >>> sales person wasn't even enthusiastic, but watcha gonna do?). >>> >>> Is there any problem in defragging and using fips to chamge the HD >>> partitions in Vista? >>>> The machine has an 80 G HD. I figure 50 G for M$, 30 G for FC 5. >>> Comments? >> I think that fips is so last-century. >> >> Probably your best bet is the Gnome partition editor gparted. >> Available as a handout at installfests if I am there. >> >> Available for download at < http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ > >> >> > > Examination shows it has a bootable iso. > > The real thrust of my question was, is there something about Vista that > makes this ill advisable?
Does Vista use guid partition table? If so, does fips work with guid partition tables? I think that the libparted apps are supposed to support them. So, .. does gparted? Um, I kinda remember looking into this before, but forget the answer <sigh>. ..cdl? Regards. ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
