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Re: fips
Hi,
On Thu, 11 Jan 1996, Sridhar Ramaswamy wrote:
> someone recently sent mail saying that one could use
> fips to re-organize dos partitions. While this is true,
> and I have used fips myself, be warned that fips can
> occasionally trash the partition table. Make sure that
> you have backups.
First of all, exact this warning is written in the readme-files of fips.
Second, there is described how to use fips: first, check your harddisc,
then do a defrag, then check again, make backups if you want and then use
fips.
I used fips and it worked very well for partitioning my disc for a linux
partition.
Ciao, Hanno
--
Hanno Wagner, Student der Fachhochschule Hannover, Fachbereich IK
URL: http://www.bid.fh-hannover.de:80/~wagner/ Rince@IRC
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