Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 22:12:33 -0500 (CDT) From: Bob Willcox <bob@luke.pmr.com> To: rnordier@iafrica.com (Robert Nordier) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help! I need to shrink a DOS partition. Message-ID: <199605120312.WAA13946@luke.pmr.com> In-Reply-To: <199605120205.EAA05789@eac.iafrica.com> from Robert Nordier at "May 12, 96 04:05:01 am"
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Robert Nordier wrote: > Bob Willcox wrote: > > > > ... > > ... > > You should really approach FIPS with caution, however, as it > relies on a sort of trick to do its magic. Having been FIPS-ed, > your DOS partition is much more vulnerable to damage, because your > DOS filesystem parameters are no longer standard. If MS-DOS one day > decides it can no longer trust your partition boot sector (whether > through the action of a virus, or corruption from another cause), > it will resort to using default filesystem parameters. This may > well cause all your DOS files to become quite unreadable, and could > mess up data on your entire hard drive. > > If you really would rather be safe than sorry, a process such as > the following is recommended: > > Use FIPS to split DOS partition C: > DOS format the newly-created partition as D: > Zip the entire contents of C: to D: > Re-fdisk and re-format C: > Unzip D: to C: > > You should also be aware that the FreeBSD msdosfs code has problems > with some DOS partitions; and you are more likely to experience > problems if your DOS partition has been shrunk by FIPS. > > In summary: proceed with caution. Thanks for the warning and suggestion...you convinced me! > > [Note to the Powers That Be: All this probably needs to be FAQ-ed, > if it isn't there already.] > > -- > Robert Nordier > -- Bob Willcox bob@luke.pmr.com Austin, TX
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