Re: Partition splitter?

[Michael Hill <Michael_Hill@csgsystems.com>]

On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 11:20:12PM +0200, Guido Flohr wrote:
>On Fri, Jun 05, 1998 at 03:09:27PM -0400, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:
>> Is there any utility that allows splitting a TOS partition in half?
>> 
>> The idea is, you only loose data that is on the partition you split;
>> you don't need to repartition the whole hard-disk and reinstall every
>> application on every partition.

I must be missing something...  I used either HDDRIVER or an ICD util
(which came with my Falcon) to break my 900MB audio partition into a
150MB MiNT partition and a 750MB Linux partition.  Granted, I backed
up all the other partitions JIC, but I didn't have to restore anything
to the partitions I kept.  So what's the problem?

>Anyway, repartitioning is always a hazard game.  At first glance
>it looks like you could only lose data on the partition you want
>to split.  In fact you run the risk of messing up your entire
>harddisk (because a re-partitioner has to write into the root
>sector).

That's true, it can be risky.  But you could simply read the boot sector
and save it to an emergency boot floppy, with a program to restore it,
to guard against the boot sector getting trashed, right?  (Probably a
good idea in any event, repartitioning or no!)

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			--Michael

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