From: Luis Hernandez <newton AT math DOT gatech DOT edu>
Message-Id: <199910221934.PAA02492@math02.math.gatech.edu>
Subject: Re: About repartitioning the HD.
In-Reply-To: <3810688d.0@nnrp1.news.uk.psi.net> from Ya'qub at "Oct 22, 99 02:37:15 pm"
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 15:34:35 -0400 (EDT)
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> Damian Yerrick <d_yerrick AT hotmail DOT com> wrote in message
> news:19991021191328 DOT 87998 DOT qmail AT hotmail DOT com...
> >
> > Prashant TR <prashant_news AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
> > > --- Damian Yerrick <web DOT poison AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com> wrote:
> > > > I run go32-v2 with no args under Windows 9x, and it
> > > > tells me
> > > >
> > > > DPMI memory available: 26201 Kb
> > > > DPMI swap space available: 36027 Kb
> > > >
> > > > I have a 6 gig hard disk with 3 gig free. Where is
> > > > the rest of the swap space?
> > >
> > > You must have partitioned your HDD, right ?
> >
> > There is only one FAT32 partition, C:
> >
> > > So, how much of free space do you have in C: ?
> >
> > 3,536,650,240 bytes (3.29 GB)
> >
> > > That's what you're probably getting.
> > > Anyway, this is just a guess.
> >
> > Any other guesses? Or is it that XMS and/or DPMI
> > only allow 64 MB of XMS memory?
> >
> > I'd like to partition my HD to install Caldera or Red Hat
> > Linux, but what freeware will shrink the FAT32 partition
> > by a gigabyte and leave its files intact?
> >

   You can use FIPS for that, first use a utility   to defragment and move
   everything to the  beginning  of your HD (like Norton's  speed disk for
   example). Then you can use FIPS to create  a new partition using all or
   part of the  free space. I've done that (on different machines) several
   times, and it works perfectly.
   
   If you plan on RedHat, FIPS comes with it.

   Only one problem, sector size is gonna be the same as it was in the old
   partition unless you can reformat.

   A Archie or web search will  show you from where can you download FIPS;
   a posibility could be:

ftp://ftp.cc.gatech.edu/Linux/distributions/redhat/redhat-6.1/i386/dosutils/fips20/

   I really  don't know  what  is the last  (or more  recent) version, the
   problem is the the web server at igd.fhg.de  (the maintainers)     went
   down, and I  couldn't check.  But maybe you can check it later, the web
   address for FIPS' home page is:

      http://www.igd.fhg.de/~aschaefe/fips/

Luis Hernandez