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Date:      Tue, 14 May 1996 00:37:23 +0200 (SAT)
From:      Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com>
To:        terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        pechter@shell.monmouth.com, rnordier@iafrica.com, bob@luke.pmr.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help! I need to shrink a DOS partition.
Message-ID:  <199605132237.AAA00265@eac.iafrica.com>
In-Reply-To: <199605132135.OAA10614@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at May 13, 96 02:35:35 pm

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Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> As far as I can tell, the version I have does not chnage DOS cluster
> size.

I don't know "Partition Magic", but there is a utility called
"Partition Resizer" which explicitly claims to do this.  According
to the documentation, it will even redo a 16-bit FAT as a 12-bit
FAT, and vice versa.

>From the fairly detailed documentation, the programmer appears to
know his stuff.  And it _may_ be a better FIPS.  I haven't actually
used it, though.

For what it's worth, look for 'msdos/diskutil/presz112.zip' on
Simtel.Net.  It's freeware, but source is not included.

--
Robert Nordier



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