Re: Partition splitter?

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>]

Guido Flohr <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de> writes:

|> Hi Martin!
|> 
|> 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 know the DOS market has such a utility, but I would need the same
|> > for my Atari.  Either a GEM/TOS program or a MiNT port of some Unix 
|> > utility is perfectly fine for me.
|> 
|> Some Linux distributions for Intel boxes have a tool called FUPS
|> or FIPS.  It allows repartitioning.  But I think this is really
|> very, very hardware dependent.  Porting it to TOS probably means
|> to rewrite it from the scratch.

There is also atari-fdisk for Linux, which may be easier to start with.

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