From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 19 22:51:51 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91F5437B401 for ; Mon, 19 May 2003 22:51:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net (heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09CC343FA3 for ; Mon, 19 May 2003 22:51:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from user-38lc0ps.dialup.mindspring.com ([209.86.3.60] helo=mindspring.com) by heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19I02K-0001gZ-00; Mon, 19 May 2003 22:51:45 -0700 Message-ID: <3EC9C222.433956AD@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 22:50:26 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: walt References: <200305170123.24631.cbiffle@safety.net> <3EC8F046.9FCDBC7D@mindspring.com> <3EC90FA4.8080409@myrealbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a432e14b3d569cc33e7549c93e9b38e02a350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.0-R won't boot partition 60G into a drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 05:51:51 -0000 walt wrote: > Terry Lambert wrote: > > I recommend "Partition Magic". Most Windows "recovery CDs" > > these days will overwrite the entire disk, due to XP using > > NTFS, and most recovery software disk mastering software > > being too stupid to understand sizing/writing NTFS... > > I'd like to put in a word for Acronis's 'Partition Expert' > which I now like better than 'Partition Magic'. > > I used PM for years, in fact I bought every new version as > it was released. The last two versions of PM just are not > up to their old standards, IMO. They seem to be resting > on their laurels instead of making real improvements. I don't know about that; they didn't used to support NTFS, and now they do, so they are adding features over time. The one glaring omission, IMO, is the need to have a FAT-32 partition to install BootMagic, their boot manager; it's not capable of reading its own data from NTFS. I like the Acronis' ability to make a boot-restore CD; but you'd probably have to use a DVD-R for most installations, and it doesn't seem to support that. I'd be happier if either one of them supported UFS (or even UFS2) and/or running under FreeBSD. It'd also be nice if they would share their how-to-write-NTFS-journal-files know-how. 8-). I don't think either one of them does the right thing for moving LILO's cached block list for the Kernel around, so it's pretty dumb to support all those Linux FS's, when you can't move your root around. 8-|. -- Terry