On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 01:11:43PM -0400, mike wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 08:44:46 -0500, Cavaiani, Don said: > > > > > When I split up my hard drive between WIN98 and Debian, I made the Debian > > partitions too small. Is there any way to go back in there now and "steal" > > back some of the empty space that WIN98 now owns - without re-loading > > anything > > You should be able to resize your Win partition with GNU > parted. To shrink the Win partition you must first defrag it and > move any hidden files that may be near the end of the partition. > I used a free trial copy of Diskeeper from execsoft to do this > because i could'nt get 'fips' to do it. That seems to be the sticky > part. > Once you can shrink Win then the Linux partions can be > added with 'parted'.
parted will defrag the filesystem for you when i tried it, at least ext2 it does, not certain about FAT. i also was using 1.4pre[123] on a powerpc so somethings are different ;-) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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