On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Simon Martin wrote: > I installed Debian on hda as a test and promptly fell in love with it. > Unfortunately I earn my living developing for Win 3.x/Win 95 and so cannot > easily repartition my main disk. > > I heard some noise on this list about setting being able to mount a file as > a filesystem. I would like to know how I can create say a 200MB file on hdb > (Win 95) and mount it as a filesystem on say /usr. > Doesn't sound like a good idea to use a mounted file as a Linux file system. Nothing compares to a real ext2 file system. ;-)
If i were you i'd rather repartition by using FIPS-1.5 which does no harm to your existing data. You can get the most recent information and version at it's homepage at "http://www.student.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~schaefer/fips.html";. I think Debian distributions normally provide FIPS but not the most recent version with all (minor) bugfixes included. I regularily use FIPS for splitting harddisk partitions (20 times so far) and never managed to get data destroyed on any up to now. FIPS is a very secure tool and makes it possible to undo a partiton splitting without doing harm to the data on it. Works well with Win95 vfat file systems. Regards, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany Our AMA Homepage in the WWW at http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bender/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
