Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/10/25/18:02:32
Johan Venter wrote:
>
> Damian Yerrick <d_yerrick AT hotmail DOT com> wrote in message
> news:19991021191328 DOT 87998 DOT qmail AT hotmail DOT com...
> > I'd like to partition my HD to install Caldera or Red Hat
> > Linux, but what freeware will shrink the FAT32 partition
> > by a gigabyte and leave its files intact?
>
> Fips will do this for you. It's included on the Red Hat installation CD (don't
> worry, the installation CD has a FAT partition so you can read it in
> Windows/DOS).
A small point, not worth posting, but its actually an iso9660 fs, which
is the default for cdroms. Also, fips is downloadable if you don't
want to use redhat.
> Fips is very safe, you just need to defragment your hard drive before hand to
> push all the free space to the end of the drive. Fips then starts at the end of
> the drive and moves back to where the last data on the drive is stored, thus
> resulting in the amount of free space you have on the drive. You can then select
> how much of that free space you want to use to create a new partition. Fips will
> make a new partition for which you can then use format as a Linux partition with
> the fdisk in the installation of Red Hat.
>
> BTW You should really use fips twice, to make two new partitions. One for Linux,
> the other for a LInux swap partition (this is required). Make your swap
> partition double the size of your ram (ie 32MB RAM = 64MB swap).
With the second partition you can use cfdisk/fdisk (linux versions) to
split up
the partition, so using fips twice is unnecessary.
Peter Allen
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