[ltp] Wasted Free Space

[Ernest A. James]

As far as I know Alex, Partition Magic 5 also has a DOS version that works
well - in fact I think that's what I used a few months ago to repartion my
disk.

Ernest
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Bell" <afjbell@onlink.net>
To: "Linux Thinkpad List" <linux-thinkpad@bm-soft.com>
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 11:51 AM
Subject: [ltp] Wasted Free Space


> Pardon me if this is off topic for this list, but I had no success with
> Usenet.
>
> Because of mistakes I made when installing Corel Linux on my ThinkPad
> 385XD the computer has a small swap partition and about 23Mb wasted
> free space at the end of the hard drive right next to the swap
> partition.
>
> Is there any way I can delete the swap partition so as to merge it with
> the free space, and then format the resulting free space as a swap
> partition?  I've looked at linux Fdisk and FIPS but find them hard to
> understand.
>
> So far as I know Partition Magic 5 needs Microslop Windows to install,
> and I don't have any Microslop products on my computer.
>
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