Dear friends,
I think you should *give a warning* for the suggested method to reset a
partitionsize after having used fips or whatever method to diminish a
partition.
In the excellent text about installing Linux/Gnu there is this advice:
4.8 Partitioning for DOS
Apparently, whenever you create or resize a partition for DOS use,
it's a good idea to fill the first few sectors
with zeros. Do this prior to running DOS's format
command, from Linux:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdXX bs=512 count=4
I would not do that if I had any data. I would not mind zeroing out
the boot block: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdXX bs=512 count=1
However you will overwrite the first FAT if you do more than 512byte,
at least on the systems I know of.
Donald Axel, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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