[4904] in RedHat Linux List
Re: reliability of fips? [was Re: Linux/Win95]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Lindstrom)
Mon Nov 18 01:18:34 1996
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 02:11:10 -0500 (EST)
From: Ben Lindstrom <mouring@sarah.djmix.com>
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On Sun, 17 Nov 1996, drink wrote:
> > If Win95 currently infests your entire disk, then use Partition Magic ($) or
> > fips (free) to shrink your Win95 partition.
>
> How reliable is fips? I use Linux on a seperate HD, but a friend of
> mine would like to install to his current Win95 drive without backing
> up, repartitioning, etc, etc. Does anyone have any praise for fips, or
> more importantly any horror stories? Any real reason to go out and buy
> partition magic if you've got fips? I've never used either. Thanks.
Problem I had with FIPS and win95 was the fact that windows threw out a
lot of "non-moveable swap blocks" that spanned all the way to the bottom
of the 1.6 gig drive..And I could not get any defrag program I owned to
deal with it right. I don't know about the other one.
Just FYI
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