trouble using fips

trouble using fips

[dannyboy]

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Hello.  When attempting to use fips, I saw that the numbers for the starting cylinder never change.  I have a 6.49 gig hard drive.  So I entered to have the new partition begin on the first free cylinder.  Instead, the old partition was decreased by only .02 gb.  Fortunately I was able to restore everything back.  What other approach could be used to create another partition without destroying data on this disk?

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Re: trouble using fips

[Thomas Ward]

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Hi, if you have Windows on your machine try a program called Partition Magic 7.0. You can resize partitions, merge partitions, create partitions, and do all sorts of things with it.
It is one of my favorite programs.
However, as with most Windows based programs it costs a heap. It's ruffly $70.00, but it is pretty good.
 
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  From: dannyboy 
  To: speakup 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 9:56 PM
  Subject: trouble using fips


  Hello.  When attempting to use fips, I saw that the numbers for the starting cylinder never change.  I have a 6.49 gig hard drive.  So I entered to have the new partition begin on the first free cylinder.  Instead, the old partition was decreased by only .02 gb.  Fortunately I was able to restore everything back.  What other approach could be used to create another partition without destroying data on this disk?

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Re: trouble using fips

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Sounds to me like perhaps you did not defrag the disk before running fips.
Fips will not do that for you, so it can only reduce your existing
partition to the location of the "farthest out" allocated disk sectors. If
that is the case, use some kind of disk defragging tool and try it again.

On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, dannyboy wrote:

> Hello.  When attempting to use fips, I saw that the numbers for the starting cylinder never change.  I have a 6.49 gig hard drive.  So I entered to have the new partition begin on the first free cylinder.  Instead, the old partition was decreased by only .02 gb.  Fortunately I was able to restore everything back.  What other approach could be used to create another partition without destroying data on this disk?
>

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Re: trouble using fips

[Frank Carmickle]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> 
> Sounds to me like perhaps you did not defrag the disk before running fips.
> Fips will not do that for you, so it can only reduce your existing
> partition to the location of the "farthest out" allocated disk sectors. If

This being very true.  However this summer when using fips-2.0 after
defragging a disk I showed that half of the drive was not being used and
fips allowed me to use it.  Only problem was on exiting.  It crapped out
and left the disk in a complete mess unrecoverable.  If the damn slackware
distro had actually had boot floppies with parted on it I would have used
it.  I am unsure if the debian woody disks have it but there is a specific
package called parted-bf made for boot-floppies.  I believe that parted
allows you to change the size of partitions with out any
defragmentation.  It also allows many many more features then just cutting
the darn thing in two and then having to run some other fdisk session to
set it up the way you want it.  

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