From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Feb 24 13:36:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from threespace.com (server44.aitcom.net [208.234.0.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3571C37B417 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 13:36:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from vwinxp.threespace.com (ip68-11-176-217.br.no.cox.net [68.11.176.217]) by threespace.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA30122 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 16:37:13 -0500 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20020224153046.01986c18@threespace.com> X-Sender: tech@threespace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 15:35:34 -0600 To: FreeBSD Chat From: Chip Morton Subject: Re: Drive/Partition Copying Utilities In-Reply-To: <3C7931F9.7F08969A@mindspring.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020224124537.018da7d0@threespace.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:33 PM 2/24/2002, Terry Lambert wrote: >It's a bear to use to get dual-boot working with BootMagic with >NTFS, though it's certainly possible to do (I posted on this >in the past), but Partition Magic specifically warns you if >you try to make an NTFS partition that's bootable span the 4G >front of the disk. Windows XP NTFS appears to have resolved >this problem, at least to the normal 8G, if not better. Are >you sure you didn't just shoot yourself in the foot by ignoring >the warning? It was a while back, so I don't remember the exact details, but I believe I was trying to move a Windows 2000 boot partition by a few megabytes. PartitionMagic bombed out midway through the process. The partition wouldn't boot after it was moved, and it was chock full of errors. After that I just kept my moving/resizing experiments limited to FAT16/32 partitions. > > For Linux and BSD filesystems, PartitionMagic will just tell you that the > > partitions are there and then (wisely) not allow you to do anything with > > them except format/delete them. > >Ah. You are running 6.x, where NTFS support came in, but >there was no warning. 7.x warns you, and 7.x is capable >of moving EXT2 partitions around. [snip] Does the new version allow you to resize ext2 filesystems? And has anybody added support for ext3 yet? (I wouldn't expect so, but while I'm thinking about it...) --Chip Morton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message