Re: Partition problems

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)]

 > From: Keith McDuffee <http://www.cns.bu.edu/~keithm>
 > Date: Wed  Mar 12,  3:54pm
 >
 > Sorry to take so long to respond. I had to reach deep back to remember what
 > I did to fix it!
 > 
 > What happened was when making the new partition with fips, I needed to skip
 > at least one cylinder to make the new partition or Linux wouldn't like the
 > new partition and would refuse to mount it as /mnt.  So if you have the
 > problem I had, try skipping a cylinder or two for the new partition.
 > 
 > Hope that helps!
 > 
 > Keith McDuffee
 > Director Of Computation Labs
 > Boston University - CAS/CNS
 > http://www.cns.bu.edu/~keithm
 > 
 > At 04:00 PM 3/3/97 -0800, you wrote:
 > >Hi.  Did you work out this problem?  I'm planning to try the defrag/fips for
 > >my Windows NT installation, but I'd like to make sure I know the pitfalls
 > >before I begin.

Well, I've since discovered that the only prog which will actually compress
NTFS is Partition Magic; I guess all the other progs work on FAT or VFAT.
Ugh.  So, I'm trying to see if I can get an upgrade to my copy of Partition
Magic so I can resize my existing NTFS partition and throw another partition
(maybe I should do a FAT so I can just run umsdos?) on after that...

I guess there's an experimental version of a file system device driver that
will _read_ NTFS, so it won't yet write.  So, it seems that Partition Magic
is my only hope.  (I'd otherwise try to get my computer backed up and changed
to FAT so I could do something useful, but I'm planning on running Linux w/o
anyone else knowing!  Windows NT just doesn't cut it...)