Christopher J. & JoLene J. McFarland wrote:
>
> Hello, real newbie here.
> So new I don't even have Linux on my box yet. :)
> OK, here's my question:
> I have Win95 installed on my hard drive on one (very large) partition on my
>hard drive, which is approx 1.6 gigs total. Now, I just got this system tweeked to
>my liking, after about the 4th reformat since my marriage. (and I got married 3
>months ago! Hows that for Microshmucks "reliability" for you.) Further, my wife
>would kill me if I took all the stuff which she *just* started learning and tossed it
>out. Further, that I *finally* found an office suite that's so close to my own tast
> Down to the question. Is there a freeware way to re-partition the hard
>drive without losing the data that is already there? I'm basicly looking for a
>"Partition Magic"-type freeware.
> If there isn't a way to do it, that's cool, I'll just wait until I have
>enough money to buy a bigger hard drive, Partition Magic, and whatever the premier
>Linux release is available at the time. (probably Red Hat)
> Thanks for any help you can give me.
>
> Chris
fips will do this for you, look for it on most cdrom distributions.
Basically you put fips and "restorrb"(I think that's the name of it) on
a win95 formatted boot disk. fips will make a copy of your old partition
table on the boot disk and then you can re-partition. If you change your
mind you can restore your partition table from the disk.
