RE: moving partition boundries???
I checked with PM tech, and they confirmed this. They can recognize and I
think create; but that's it.
Hank
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Cogburn [mailto:ecogburn@greene.xtn.net]
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 1998 11:37 AM
To: Debian Users
Subject: Re: moving partition boundries???
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
>
> I thought I saw an option for this in fdisk along the way, but now i can't
> find it. Now that I've moved about 40 floppies over by hand (no network
> card), I've found that if I set up a hibernation file in dos, the hardware
> will automatically use it. So I'd like to peel back the end of my
> / partition by 20mb . . . Is there any way to do this, or am I stuck
> with a complete reinstall if i want this?
>
> rick
>
I'm afraid you are stuck. I think somebody said the commercial app
Partition Magic can do this, but I'll bet it can only split DOS/Win FAT
type partitions. There is no prog in the Linux world, that I've heard
of, that can split an ext2 partition.
--
Ed C.
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