Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:50:26 -0800 From: Rob <rob@pythonemproject.com> To: Chip Morton <tech_info@threespace.com>, "freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Drive/Partition Copying Utilities Message-ID: <3C796E32.8A1F4F97@pythonemproject.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020224124537.018da7d0@threespace.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020224153046.01986c18@threespace.com>
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Chip Morton wrote: > > 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 I am very interested in repartitioning my notebook. It has a 30gig drive now with Win2k and FBSD, but I wish I could redo it for 3 partitions of 10Gig so I can try a new OS like OpenBSD or Linux. Rob. -- The Numeric Python EM Project www.pythonemproject.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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