[ale] Reducing Partition Solution

jkinney jkinney at teller.physics.emory.edu
Mon Oct 5 23:12:26 EDT 1998


There is a new version of FIPS that will handle FAT32 partitions.
Partition magic will handle it just fine.

Of course you can always reinstall winblows after a good-for-the-soul
fdisk!

On Mon, 5 Oct 1998 Stan.Hearn at ipst.edu wrote:

> I just got a new system with Windows 98 on it.  I need to carve out some
> space on my 12 Gig drive for Linux partitions in order to dual boot it.
> 
> >From the documentation, FIPS will not do the trick.  Especially with a 32
> Bit FAT.
> 
> I'm pretty sure that Partition Magic will work for this, but are there
> others that I can try?  I have a license for Ghost, but I think it will
> only copy a partition to a larger partition and not to a smaller one.
> 
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> STAN
> 

Jim Kinney M.S.
jkinney at teller.physics.emory.edu
Educational Technology Specialist	404-727-4734
Department of Physics			Emory University






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