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Re: reliability of fips? [was Re: Linux/Win95]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Borg)
Mon Nov 18 17:33:24 1996
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 14:26:49 -0800
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Kyle Ferrio wrote:
>
> On Mon, 18 Nov 1996, Wojtek Pilorz wrote:
>
> > One problem with FIPS is that it does not change the cluster size;
> > If you change the DOS/Windows partitions size to a much smaller
..........
> That's a very good point, and is discussed in the FIPS docs. While FIPS is
> great for "hacking off" a partition for linux or whatever, it is most
> definitely *not* a good way to create secondary (much less tertiary) FAT
There's a free Windose95 utility called "resize". It doesn't
make a partitioning but it can decrease a primary vfat
partition size after which you have an unused disk space which
is not visible from Windose unless fdisked and formatted, it
can be formatted as anything. The utility is absolutely safe but
for best results it requires swap size set to 0 (zero) under Windose
control panel before you use it. I _think_ (but I am not sure!)
it lets you ajust cluster size as well.
Sorry, I don't know where to find it, I just heard success
stories of several people who applied it.
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