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from: `Duncan Way`
date: 2005-10-26 12:30:32
subject: Re: [OS2HW] Changing partition size and still able to boot os2

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:24:19 -0400, Don{ald} O. Woodall wrote:

>In , on
>10/26/2005 
>   at 09:40 AM, "Duncan Way"  said:
>
>Hi Duncan
>
>>I want to increase the size of my xp partition.
>>I am running Warp4/fp15 with the latest fdisk/bootmanager from ECS. I am
>>using Dani's dasd and 506.
>
>>My current setup is:
>
>>C:  5000 mb  -- xp (fat32)
>>D:  700  mb  -- programs (hpfs)
>>E:  600  mb  -- data (hpfs)
>>F:  600  mb  -- Warp4 (main boot, hpfs)
>>G:  400  mb  -- Warp4 (maintenance boot, hpfs)
>>H:  10000 mb -- hpfs partition which I would take space from to increase
>>C:
>
>>(there are other partitions, but they don't come into play)
>
>>I would be using PartitionMagic 5.0 to change the partition sizes.
>
>     That alone will stop eCS from booting because it is ignorant of LVM.
>
>>Is there any way I could check beforehand that adding the space to C:
>>would stop either OS/2 from booting.  The drive in question is SATA; if
>>that makes any  difference.
>
>>My motherboard is an Abit AN7 with the latest BIOS applied, approx. 1
>>year old.
>
>>Fdisk /query gives the **8mb line displayed.
>
>>Thanks,
>>Duncan Way
>
>     The place you really should be asking this question is
>on the DFSEE e-Mail list.
>

I am not running ECS, see above.
I bought an ECS subscription to get IBM updates.
Installing ECS is not an option for me.

Duncan



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