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From: Andy Goth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 1999 2:46 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah
> > Basically what Partition Magic does that fdisk doesn't, is resize
existing
> > partitions without requiring you to first destroy them (and everything
on them)
> > and recreate them. I guess that's convenient but -I- wouldn't pay $70
for it.
> > :)
>
> So it's a nondestructive partition resizer? That doesn't sound
> exceedingly hard to write. I mean, shouldn't fdisk be able to do this?
> I understand that it's still *much* easier to reformat everything, but
> moving data... The snag is that it'll take direct writes. It shouldn't
> be too hard to grab one block of data and move it over some on disk. If
> they overlap, start from the other direction. Use memory, too, when the
> overlapping gets to be too much. What more is there?
>
>
Well, I'm no programmer, but it must not be terribly difficult as I have a
couple of programs that do similar things. But Partition Magic is still the
best, and comes with more than just the partition creator and resizer. I
have Partition Magic 4.0 which has a Windows and DOS version, and works on
ex2fs. Through creative searching, I did not pay for it (shhh), but it is
hard to find. There are shareware or freeware programs like Partition
manager and FIPS which will also create and resize partitions, but you don't
get the nice GUI and there is some knowledge that goes into it. Anything
that you want or need can be found online if you are willing put the time
in.
Manny Styles
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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