On Fri, 29 May 1998, Trevor D Stevenson wrote:
I am sure that Partition Magic ver.3.0 is worth every penny or cent like you say, but why pay 60/80$ when fips is free and in my experience works
The main advantage of Partition Magic is it can change the size of a partition without having to move or restore the software. So, on the typical Win95 box that has one 3GB drive where you want to install Linux but keep Win95 and dual boot with lilo, first you delete or uninstall all the garbage software that was preinstalled by the manufacturer and get down to the stuff you might actually use--suppose that leaves you a Win95 requirement of 500MB. You can now go into Partition Magic right from Win95 and pare down the Win95 partition from 3GB to 500MB without even rebooting your box. At this point, I do not recommend you create any partitions for Linux as this is safest done by Linux fdisk in the installer of your Linux distribution. Just leave empty space for now. Another neat thing about Partition Magic when repartitioning Win95 boxes is it can reclaim 100s of MBs of disk space by making the cluster sizes smaller--something else fips can't do. Partition Magic is well worth the money--very easy and slick to use for a grubby job that is potentially fatal to your data. Dwight -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e