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Re: Dual O/S



On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 01:11:43PM -0400, mike wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 08:44:46 -0500, Cavaiani, Don said:
> 
> > 
> >  When I split up my hard drive between WIN98 and Debian, I made the Debian
> >  partitions too small.  Is there any way to go back in there now and "steal"
> >  back some of the empty space that WIN98 now owns  - without re-loading
> >  anything 
> 
> 	 You should be able to resize your Win partition with GNU
> parted. To shrink the Win partition you must first defrag it and
> move any hidden files that may be near the end of the partition.
> 	I used a free trial copy of Diskeeper from execsoft to do this
> because i could'nt get 'fips' to do it. That seems to be the sticky
> part.
> 	Once you can shrink Win then the Linux partions can be
> added with 'parted'.

parted will defrag the filesystem for you when i tried it, at least
ext2 it does, not certain about FAT.  i also was using 1.4pre[123] on
a powerpc so somethings are different ;-)

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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