FIPS is nice. But if your existing data on Win95/98 is fragmented, then you
will have to defragment it. Ang tagal, grabe. Anyways, I've tried it on a
machine with a clean win98 installation, and fips found out that my last
sectors/tracks were free. But you will have to manually input the start of
block, AFAIR.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Federico Sevilla III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 8:43 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [plug] Reconfiguring Win98 partition
>
>
> Quoting "Elfredy V. Cadapan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >FIPS... I think it's in the tools subdir on most distribs. fips.exe
>
> I tried FIPS but I was terribly dissatisfied. I ended up just
> deleting the
> whole thing and redoing my partitioning. I do not know how
> stable the parted
> utility is. I don't know if its current state allows you to
> work on FAT32
> partitions, either. But it's probably worth a shot. You'll
> also have to run
> this from a Linux bootdisk. Makes it a little more
> complicated, but it might do
> the trick if FIPS doesn't. If FIPS cuts it, then I guess it
> should do. It looks
> like it could be more convenient to use. :)
>
> If you want to check out parted you can look in Freshmeat
> <http://www.freshmeat.net/> to see where you can get it. :)
>
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