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Re: Can linux-fdisk handle FAT partitions + Banner suggestion



Mmmm... What about
1) Linux - A real operating system
2) Save the WORLD - Linux (GREENPEACE)
3) Save the computer WORLD - Linux
4) No viruses, No Cash and no Crash - Linux
5) Linux 98 - Welcome to the revolution
6) Linux the real thing (Coca Cola)
7) Where do you want to go today? Linux
8) Linux inside
9) Operating system inside - Linux
10) Come to the light side - Linux (Star wars)
11) Fast Free Cool - Linux

Ohh... times up, sorry,

Have fun,

and

may be the power be with you - linux

Daniel





Shlomi Fish wrote:

> Well,
>
> FOA, I've prepared a banner for the party and you can review it at:
> http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/linux_banner/
> . It was prepared with CorelDraw 4.0, and is not very sophisticated at
> the
> moment. IMO anyway, it looks very nice.
>
> And now to the main question: my family use a legal version of
> PartitionMagic at home to handle a number of FAT and VFAT
> (=Win95) partitions and resize them. There are several other
> commercial
> software packages that can do similiar things. We are very happy with
> it,
> and haven't experienced any major problems yet.
>
> My roommate just bought a new computer, and already his 3.2 GB
> hard-disk
> is split into a 2GB partition and a 1 GB partition. I suggested he
> split
> it even further, to save size of semi-empty clusters. FAT32 is not an
> option unless someone knows of an add-on for Win95 that can do just
> that.
>
> My question is: whether we can install Linux there, (or perhaps even
> use
> it from a couple of bootdisks) and use the Linux fdisk to resize the
> FAT
> partitions he finds the need. Linux fdisk should know how to do the
> following:
> 1. Cut the end of a partially empty partition. (assume
> it was defragged first).
> 2. Adjust the cluster size after a partition was shortened.
> 3. Move a partition forwards or backwards if there is any unused disk
> space there.
>
> Al those things should be done with FAT and VFAT partitions without
> damaging their contents and directory tree.
>
> Any information will be appreciated.
>
>         Shlomi Fish
>
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