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Re: Can linux-fdisk handle FAT partitions + Banner suggestion
The only one that suggests a clearly positive message, is #11. Sounds good
to me. I hope Colgate or someone hasn't got a copyright on it already. I'd
add one more word: Works, as in 'no crash'. That would make it:
Fast, Free, Cool, Works, Works, Works.... - Linux
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Daniel Schnaider wrote:
> 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 GBpartition. 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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> >
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> > take the dollar, but you can keep the dream.
> >
> > Shlomi Fish
> > Faculty of Electrical Engineering
> > The Technion
> >
> > University E-mail: shlomif@t2.technion.ac.il
> > Home E-mail: shlomif@ibm.net
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Peter Lorand Peres
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