[Freedos-user] Resize partition without data loss
Hi, I have a 500MB FreeDOS partition on a 4 GB virtual hard disk. The rest of the disk is empty. Is it possible to resize the 500 MB to the whole disk without losing data? Do I use FDISK for this or another program? Thanks in advance. Best regards Christian -- Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Resize partition without data loss
On 10/21/2014 03:43 PM, Christian Imhorst wrote: I have a 500MB FreeDOS partition on a 4 GB virtual hard disk. The rest of the disk is empty. Is it possible to resize the 500 MB to the whole disk without losing data? Do I use FDISK for this or another program? Yes, it is possible, but not with FDISK. I'd highly suggest using a liveCD for this, like this one: http://www.sysresccd.org With such liveCD, you would be able to perform the resizing operation with a few mouse clicks via the Linux GParted tool. This without losing data (of course, like anything in IT, there's no guarantee whatsoever, so you'd be advised to have backups, just in case, but resizing partitions with GParted always worked perfectly for me). Alternatively, you could also use your 500M partition for the OS only, and create a second partition on the rest of the drive for data, programs, etc, to keep things organized. Mateusz -- Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Resize partition without data loss
I guess this is where GPartEd comes in. That is a Linux distribution that you can run from a CD or DVD that is specialized in resizing partitions without data loss. On 10/21/2014 03:43 PM, Christian Imhorst wrote: Hi, I have a 500MB FreeDOS partition on a 4 GB virtual hard disk. The rest of the disk is empty. Is it possible to resize the 500 MB to the whole disk without losing data? Do I use FDISK for this or another program? Thanks in advance. Best regards Christian -- Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Resize partition without data loss
I'm the 90's I used a program named Fips, don't know if such program continues under development --+-+-+-+-+-+- Marco Achury 04143142282 El 21/10/2014 10:06, J. Bulterman b...@dl45.nl escribió: I guess this is where GPartEd comes in. That is a Linux distribution that you can run from a CD or DVD that is specialized in resizing partitions without data loss. On 10/21/2014 03:43 PM, Christian Imhorst wrote: Hi, I have a 500MB FreeDOS partition on a 4 GB virtual hard disk. The rest of the disk is empty. Is it possible to resize the 500 MB to the whole disk without losing data? Do I use FDISK for this or another program? Thanks in advance. Best regards Christian -- Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Resize partition without data loss
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com wrote: Gparted will not do it properly. You will not lose data, but FreeDOS will not report the correct size of the new partition. I have found only one thing that works: Partition Resizer available here: http://www.opus.co.tt/dave/utils.htm The link from Dave's site is broken here. The direct link - http://www.zeleps.com/ - works. __ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 -- Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Resize partition without data loss
Thanks Dennis. My mistake -- I've forgotten how many broken links I've run across in my DOS apps search. it's a like a treasure hunt. :) On 10/21/14, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com wrote: Gparted will not do it properly. You will not lose data, but FreeDOS will not report the correct size of the new partition. I have found only one thing that works: Partition Resizer available here: http://www.opus.co.tt/dave/utils.htm The link from Dave's site is broken here. The direct link - http://www.zeleps.com/ - works. __ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 -- Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Resize partition without data loss
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/21/14, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com wrote: Gparted will not do it properly. You will not lose data, but FreeDOS will not report the correct size of the new partition. I have found only one thing that works: Partition Resizer available here: http://www.opus.co.tt/dave/utils.htm The link from Dave's site is broken here. The direct link - http://www.zeleps.com/ - works. Thanks Dennis. My mistake -- I've forgotten how many broken links I've run across in my DOS apps search. it's a like a treasure hunt. :) Dave's link is almost right - it needs www prepended. But yeah, finding links to DOS stuff can take digging. Garbo going off the air was a big loss, though fortunately a mirror exists. I can generally find stuff: the challenge is remembering what it was called so I can do a proper search. :-/ __ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 -- Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] New 19-Oct-2014 Drivers -- Faster UHDD!
Johnson Lam has posted a new DRIVERS.ZIP file, now dated 19-Oct-2014 and with an updated UHDD driver, in his dropbox at: http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15785527/drivers.zip No change to any of the other drivers but re-dating them 19-Oct-2014 for consistency, also no change to the /B stand alone UHDD. UHDD's /M switch is deleted. It shall now set a 256-byte binary search buffer, not 512. The short buffer still avoids 6 XMS accesses in every cache binary search, which increases speed. It also helps UHDD + UDVD2 (4400 HMA bytes total) fit in the limited HMA of V7.0+ MS-DOS (max. 8976 bytes) with up to 12 DOS buffers. For these reasons, UHDD's buffer has been made permanent, and /M is now unneeded. UHDD now overlaps caching tasks with UltraDMA disk I-O! Disk input may not be overlapped, as at least one extra XMS move is needed (user-buffer to cache, or vice-versa, depending on UltraDMA rules). That move may not begin until input is finished. But, disk output CAN be overlapped, and an extra XMS move (if needed) can be done during output DMA! Adding only UltraDMA output overlap, and doing some cache work after DMA end but before disk ready, i.e. in the last inter-sector gap of each disk I-O, all WORKED the very first time! UHDD now has noticeably more speed! This is especially true for slower laptop or old disks, whose sector gaps give UHDD more time to overlap XMS binary searches, etc. More difficult to add in UIDE, with its integrated logic, while UHDD has separate stand-alone and caching UltraDMA subroutines. Many UIDE users want the driver to remain as-is, so it was again left alone. Those who desire more speed can switch from using UIDE to using UHDD + UDVD2. -- Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Resize partition without data loss
On 10/21/2014 11:39 AM, dmccunney wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com wrote: Gparted will not do it properly. You will not lose data, but FreeDOS will not report the correct size of the new partition. I have found only one thing that works: Partition Resizer available here: http://www.opus.co.tt/dave/utils.htm The link from Dave's site is broken here. The direct link - http://www.zeleps.com/ - works. That's even worse, it redirects to an attack web site these days... Ralf --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com -- Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Resize partition without data loss
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/21/2014 11:39 AM, dmccunney wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com wrote: Gparted will not do it properly. You will not lose data, but FreeDOS will not report the correct size of the new partition. I have found only one thing that works: Partition Resizer available here: http://www.opus.co.tt/dave/utils.htm The link from Dave's site is broken here. The direct link - http://www.zeleps.com/ - works. That's even worse, it redirects to an attack web site these days... H. I use Firefox, which uses a Google maintained list of attack sites. I had no problem accessing it the first time. But I run Firefox with the NoScript addon that blocks scripting unless the site is in a user maintained whitelist. With scripting off, there's nary a peep from FF. When I *enable* scripting, I get the warning screen, talking about tzdpc.com. PRESZ134.ZIP is available from a number of sources: http://www.filewatcher.com/m/presz134.zip.100192-0.html, so zeleps status isn't a problem. Ralf __ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 -- Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
