Re: [MLUG] Combining physical drives into single partitions

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I don't run Windows so fat isn't much of an issue for me anymore
luckily. Got GNU Parted installed and it says it can do what I need. Now
just have to work up the nerve to start resizing partitions holding data
I can't easily replace. :)

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Michael McGlothlin <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
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On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, John Engelbrecht wrote:

> 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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