Subject: Re: disk partitioner
To: Shawn Lauzon <lauzon@cs.wisc.edu>
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
List: tech-install
Date: 07/18/1995 01:40:53
>I was talking with a friend who installed Linux on his MS-DOS machine, and
>he told me that he used a partitioner that let you take space from one
>partition and put it into a new partition without losing any data.  Does
>anyone know of a program that is able to do this (I don't think pfdisk does
>this, does it?)  Thanks in advance.

One such program that does this is called "fips".  Look for it via archie.

I used it once on a friend's drive; it worked okay, but I recall that I had
to adjust some of the partition values with pfdisk after we were done.

Note that fips, at least, (I don't know about any other programs that do
this), isn't smart enough to move data for you; you have to defrag your disk
so all your MS-DOS files are first.

--Ken