Resizing Partitions

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

I use Partition Magic. Most of the recent installfests have required 
resizing of partitions for dual boot. Partition Magic can resize, create, 
check and format Windows FAT, FAT32 as well as Linux ext2 and swap. 
Because of a hardware problem on my system, I resized my entire Linux 
system so I could recover from the crashes more quickly. (Hardware 
problem has been solved). Mandrake's DiskDrake is nice, but it lacks 
some of the additional features of PartitionMagic. The CD version of 
Partition Magic has a Unix/Linux directory where you can make 
standalone boot disks. 
 
On 31 May 2000, at 7:39, David Lapointe wrote:

> Has anyone experience on resizing partitions on a  dual boot system (Win98/Linux)? I am interested in INCREASING
> the size of a partition.  Basically I was thinking of backing up the partition ( 2 VFAT, 3 ext2 ),  removing it, making a 
> larger extended partition, moving the stuff back.  ( the mv vs. cp was quite timely).
> 
> OTOH,  would Partition Magic or DiskDrake ( I have Mandrake)  do the trick?
> 
> -- 
>  .david
>  David Lapointe
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Associate Director
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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