Am 06. Oct, 2002 schwätzte Craig White so:

> The real answer is to rely on a commercial product like Partition Magic
> if you really really have to shrink NTFS partitions because at least if
> things get foobar, you can shrug and say, hey - it wasn't linux that
> screwed things up.

Using prop software at the InstallFests is not the correct answer.

> HOWEVER - given the price of hard drives these days - and the fact that
> most boxes have an empty space for another hard drive, it's probably
> best to encourage people to add another hard drive for linux - and
> perhaps save some space for a FAT32 volume to pass data from Windows to
> linux.

What's the cost for partition magic?

Maybe we just start requiring that people have a disk for GNU/Linux due to
m$' proprietary problems?

Maybe we research an extremely reliable way to backup and restore m$,
changing the part table in between.

ciao,

der.hans
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