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Date:      Sun, 12 May 1996 15:11:55 +0200 (SAT)
From:      Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com>
To:        pechter@shell.monmouth.com (Bill/Carolyn Pechter)
Cc:        bob@luke.pmr.com, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help! I need to shrink a DOS partition.
Message-ID:  <199605121311.PAA07456@eac.iafrica.com>
In-Reply-To: <199605121213.IAA02673@shell.monmouth.com> from "Bill/Carolyn Pechter" at May 12, 96 08:13:57 am

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Bill 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.
> 
> > [Note to the Powers That Be: All this probably needs to be FAQ-ed,
> > if it isn't there already.]
> > 
> 
> Note to the Powers That Be:  Another alternative is the commercial program
> Partiton Magic (which will resize DOS and OS/2 partitions including HPFS)
> and may be more reliable and less prone to FreeBSD FAT problems than
> FIPS since it can change fat clustersize.

Well, OK, I'd go along with that....

8-).

-- 
Robert Nordier



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