the answer is "yes it should" however playing with partition size has always
had the potential for disaster and this is probably as true of Mandrake as
of human operator.Best to run defrag beforehand to give the best chance and
should then be OK.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Russell Simmons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "linux/mandrake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 2:17 AM
Subject: [newbie] 7.0 partioning ?
> i have a dual boot box (windoze 98/lm 6.0) on a 5.1 gig wd hd...when i
> partitioned the drive i gave 4 gigs to windoz, (c), and i gig to use for
> linux, (d), (hda1=windoz, hda2=linux swap, hda3=/, hda4=/home)...i used
> linux fdisk to partition the 1 gig...a friend of mine went to linux
> world expo, and broght me back a copy of 7.0, compliments of
> nylug...while checking out the tutorial on the mandrake site, it appears
> that i could resize my 4 gig windoze partition, without wiping out c,
> and give more space for linux, using c and d...is this true? will 7.0
> resize a fat32 native windoz partition without out data lose?...
>
> tia
> russell
