Re: [MLUG] Combining physical drives into single partitions

[John Engelbrecht <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I use Partition Magic or Unix's c(fdisk) 
last time I've use Fibs it only worked on FAT16 
wouldn't do FAT32 , I don't even trust FAT32 
I always stay with FAT16 

too much wierdo crap happened with FAT32 partition


On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Michael wrote:

> > Use Fips.  I have used it and was very pleased with it.  You will have to
> > defragment or consolidate your data towards a section of the drive b4 u do.
> > If you have 13g of data, and you want 4 10g on a 40g drive you would have to
> > resize to 13, 7, 10, 10 move data around, then try to resize again.  Double
> > backups, verify, and restore before doing so will ensure you of proper data
> > recovery should something go awry
> 
> My drive is ext2 partitioned. I thought that fips only worked on fat
> partitions? There is GNU Parted (or something like that) which I think
> will work but backing up 40gigs of data is a pain. Especially since the
> system is live and rather difficult to make unlive if that makes
> sense.. many processes working on many different things all working on the
> data live. :P My fault. When I got the drive I figured I'd never need more
> than 10 gigs in a single partition. LOL
> 
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