Re: partition magic

["Robert J. Kent" <k96rk01@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Partition Magic id commercial software, AFAIK the is no Linux distribution
> that ships with it. PM 3.0 is good stuff however, and recognizes Linux, which
> ain't perfect but is better than most products. Thhey at least tell you the 
> limits and possible consequences of moving ext2 partitions around.

doh!  okay, i'd be interested in information about PM or fips or anything
else that resizes partitions.

> First of all, there's no such thing as a an "Extended DOS Partition". Extended
> partitions are not DOS entities. IMHO you want to say "Extended Parititon", as
> both DOS and Linux recognize extended partitions, and logical partitions con-
> tained inside extended partitions.

quite right!  by "extended DOS partition," i meant "partition that has been
completely divided into logical DOS partitions."  sorry for the
misinformation.

> Now, where's your Linux partition? Is it a primary or logical partition?

the linux partition is primary and it's at the END of the disk, so i can't
just tell it to eat up some more space.  i think i was unclear in my last
message: i don't intend to erase some of the DOS information and glue it
onto the linux partition; i want to erase one of the DOS logical partitions
and reformat that space as linux native, then mount the *new* ext2 partition
as /usr.

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