VanLUG Email Archive
> On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Geoff Smith wrote:
>
> > 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.
Can fips increase the size of my linux partition, or will I have to create
a new partition? If I have to create a new partition, what should I do
with it? I was thinking maybe I should move /usr there or something.
(since that is the directory that seems to get bigger and bigger)
Thanks,
Geoff.