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> Here's my present dilemma: when I first installed Debian, I was told a
> 600MB partition is *more* than enough. It seems that is no longer the
> case (although I'm really not sure why, I don't have frivolities like
I had a lot of crap on my last install(more than 2 years old)
and I only had 600MB. I guess your distro is... big boned.
> games n' stuff [yet] ) My HD is 2.1 Gigs, so my Win 95 partition is a hog
> that I'd like to shrink eventually to nothing. For now, I'd like to up my
> Linux partition to 1-1.2 gigs. How can I do this? (there was a similar
there is a dos util, "fips" that can supposedly shrink even fat32
partitions. I tried this at installfest on 2 machines and it came
up with the same error(which I can't remeber now). Partition magic
is another dos util, however you must pay to play for the version
that supports fat32 I believe. Window95 osr2 comes with fat32
the first release does not. Of course I'm not implying that I used
PM on those machines, that would be breaking that law.
> question asked a couple weeks ago, but it involved wiping out the win95
> partition completely) since I'm a hardcore newbie, I would really
> appreciate not getting an answer like "just use fdisk." I know nothing
> about partitioning. I would also appreciate a solution with minimal
> typing.. due to a recent accident with a sharp kitchen knife, I only have
> the use of one typing hand.
Ouch. Be careful, man.
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