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Date:      Mon, 13 Jul 1998 13:45:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Nicolas Blais <eletech@netrover.com>
Cc:        ranish@intercom.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Partition problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980713134452.25570O-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <35A8D850.5D23C1EB@netrover.com>

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On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, Nicolas Blais wrote:

> I have used to have just one partition with Win95, and I wanted freeBSD
> so I shorted my windows partition of 300 megs and everything is write in
> FDISK, it reports that the FAT-32 now has 800 megs.
> The problem is that windows still thinks it has 1100 megs and I can't
> install FreeBSD.  I know a format would do but I don't want to loose
> everything, is there a way to tell windows it has only 800 megs and not
> 1100 megs?

You probably shrank a logical disk in your extended partition, but didn't
shrink the extended partition itself.  Generally you'll need a special
tool for this, either Partition Resizer (which is in the tools/ directory
on ftp.freebsd.org or the CD) or Partition Magic (commerical but quite
good).

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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