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Re: repartitioning, NOT fips!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Mon Oct 26 13:30:25 1998
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 13:09:32 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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I hear rumors that someone will write an open source tool to do this,
but for now, your only choices are reinstall, or use Partition Magic 4.
PM4 is supposed to be able to defrag and shrink ext2 filesystems,
just as it does with dos.
I have not heard whether it is reliable, and it is their first release
with this functionality, so be prepared.
Michael Kleber wrote:
> Okay, I just got a brand spanking new computer and ordered it with
> Red Hat pre-installed (from Atipa). Benefit: they made darned sure all
> the hardware was linux-compatible (and they did a good job of it).
>
> Down side: they did a crummy installation job. I'm spending all my
> time trying to clean up after it.
>
> In particular, they installed onto one big 6-Gig partition; I'd really
> rather have things split up. Can anyone recommend a repartitioning
> utility that will work on a linux partition? My understanding is that
> fips will only do dos/windows partitions...
>
> Since it's a brand new installation, defragmenting (hopefully) won't
> be needed, but is there a convenient utility to check?
>
> I'm really hoping I don't need to re-install from scratch, having just
> paid someone to do it for me. I guess I deserve it...
>
> --Michael Kleber
> kleber@math.mit.edu
>
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