Hi,
I'll second that, I successfully used patition magic
with
one machine and scrambled my drive on another.
Linda
----- Original Message -----
From: erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: Partitions
> I have found that partition magic is a great way to
do this, it has
> allowed me to resize and move all of my partitions. a
word of waring
> tho - BACKUP FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> of course ymmv,
>
> -e
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 12:47:01AM -0800, C Heath
wrote:
> >Does anyone know if the system running Linux will be
reliable if I
> >delete and remake partitions to different format
within partitions? Ex.
> >
> >hda1: W95 FAT32 (Win98) 2G
> >hda2: Win95 Ext. LBA 6G
> >hda5: FAT32 2G
> >hda6: /boot 24M
> >hda7: FAT16 (Share files between Win98 and Linux)
1.9G
> >hda8: Linux Swap 125M
> >hda9: Linux root 2G
> >
> >I wanted to decrease size in hda5 from 2G to 1.9G
FAT32and add 100M
> >FAT16 and delete hda7 FAT16 and convert it into
Linux native. Ex.
> >
> >hda1: W95 FAT32 (Win98) 2G
> >hda2: Win95 Ext. LBA 6G
> >hda5: FAT32 1.9G
> >hda6: FAT16 (Share files between Win98 and Linux)
100M
> >hda7: /boot 24M
> >hda8: Linux native 1.9G
> >hda9: Linux Swap 125M
> >hda10: Linux root 2G
> >
> >Is that possible without compromising the stability
of the system? Or
> >do I have to remove all the latter partitions
starting from the point I
> >wish to delete? I have done that about half year
ago using MS Fdisk
> >with Fat32 enabled and deleting partitions between
partitions and it
> >corrupted the partitions and the MS fdisk program
itself and had to
> >delete all the latter partitions so the MS fdisk
program will read right
> >and restart the program again and do it over again.
I prefer the way
> >Linux partitions store files because MS Windows does
not support
> >multiple dots in the file name such as
XXXXX.XXX.XXX.XXX but only
> >XXXXXXXX.XXX or XXXXXX~1.XXX. When I store Linux
files in Windows
> >partitions it convert XXXXX.XXX.XXX.XXX into
XXXXX_XXX_XXX.XXX. I
> >currently have too many files I wanted to keep but I
have no way to back
> >all those up since I only have floppies. No, I do
not plan to use
> >partition magic. I am very comfortable using old
fashioned fdisk in
> >Linux.
> >
> >CH
> >
> >
>
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> erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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