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On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Biener Ariel wrote:

> > 
> > no, but NTFS makes no sense unless you run a server. for any other use NT
> > over FAT is faster, and I hope that's his setup too.
> 
> Yes, you're right. I have successfully cut FAT based partitions without
> use FIPS or anyother util, just by using Speedisk to put everything at
> the beginning of the disk, and then I cut it after the data, with
> fdisk(Linux fdisk), and voilla 

BZZZT! wrong! you may confuse DOS if you don't resize/limit the FAT size
(or whatever FIPS does to it) and it may one day ovewrite the data in the
partition now occupyed by the Linux. if it was as simple as that to do,
FIPS would never have been written!


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