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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [BL] How do I resize /dev/loop0? [dd wor ks! ]
  • Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 16:04:01 +0000 (UTC)

On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, James Miller wrote:

-----Original Message-----
From: sindi keesan
This assumes that everyone has a free partition. I resized it to put on a
laptop computer that had Win98 on it so I would not need to shrink Win98.
We shrank Win98 on another computer and it stopped working (lost one
required file, I think).

As an addendum to this discussion one should _always_ defrag a Windows
partition before resizing it. Could that (not defragging the partition first)
have been the source of your problem?

No, we defragged first. But we also deleted a lot of programs (using the Add/Remove software bit in Control Panel) and it asked whether to remove a few files that were apparently not used by other programs, and now we are missing something needed by some antivirus program for FAT32 that we could not find a way to remove. No big deal, I would rather use the 8GB SCSI drive for DOS/linux without Win98. I will see if I can write to the loop BL3.40 on a scsi drive with ext2 BL3.40 and my scsi kernel (rather than redoing initrd.fs for 2.2.26).

Sindi

> > James




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