From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 3 13:39:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA06487 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 13:39:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA06476 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 13:39:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA26067; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 13:39:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 13:39:17 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: John Kenagy cc: questions freebsd Subject: Re: making partition on NT machine In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 1 Nov 1997, John Kenagy wrote: > I'm ready to start on my last machine and dump DozerNT. > Problem is I still need a small part of the disk to run an > Italian cooking CD. In running defrag (its still a FAT disk) there > is this whacking great gob of blocks that are indicated as > "unmoveable"!? They are in the _middle_ of the disk, and of course > in the way. Its only a 512KB disk. > > Anyone know of a way around this? Short of getting another drive? What defrag labels as `unmovable' files are those with any bits set other than Archive, ie. Read-oonly, System, and Hidden. Look at the numovalbe fiels and clear their bits. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major