Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 15:35:34 -0600 From: Chip Morton <tech_info@threespace.com> To: FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Drive/Partition Copying Utilities Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20020224153046.01986c18@threespace.com> In-Reply-To: <3C7931F9.7F08969A@mindspring.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020224124537.018da7d0@threespace.com>
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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
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