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  • From: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] newbie
  • Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 09:48:57 +1200

Sindi Keesan wrote:
>
> Was your 1984 computer acquired used?

No, I bought it new in 1980 for $2000. It came with a green
screen and tape drive.

> I have partitioned my 2G drive to provide about 100MB for BL3
> 1G for BL2 and the rest for whatever I feel like playing with
> I put DOS on a separate smaller drive.
>
> I figure if I really need a swap file I can use the BL3 partition
> for that.

Do yourself a favour: put a swap partition on that drive
(unless you have a huge amount of RAM). With that much HD
space, a swap partition is cheap insurance.

> Someone on the list suggested using Partition Resizer, a free
> program to change partition sizes even with files on the partitions
> (which Partition Magic cannot do in Linux).

I would be surprised if Partition Resizer could resize Linux
partitions.

Cheers,
Steven




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