[ltp] Resizing partitions ...

[Bradley W. Langhorst]

John Janmaat wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> My employer provided me with a Thinkpad A20m, with Win98 installed.  I
> convinced them to put Linux on it as well (Slackware), but am now trying
> to figure out how to reduce the size of the FAT32 partition to get more
> room for Linux stuff (/usr, /home).  I have tried FIPS and fsresize,
> both of which exit with some message about problems in some upper
> sector/cluster.  Scandisk and dosfschk indicate everything is fine.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John.
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you could try partition magic
otherwise try defragmenting your drive before running fips...

good luck

brad
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Bradley W. Langhorst
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Whitehead Institute - Center for Genome Research
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