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@Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 11:26:55 -0400
Subject: Re: Basic eCS Installation Questions
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In , on 08/07/03 
   at 09:27 AM, "Jerry Prather"  typed:

>I stopped using Partition Magic with version 3.0.  I understand that IF
>you know what you're doing, it's possible to use an old Partition Magic
>on an LVM'd computer, but by now I'd rather try to learn to use DFSee if
>partition reorganization was required.

I had a saga with my T23 that came with a W2k preinstall.  Using DFSEE I
was able to shrink the single FAT32 C partition (29 gig) down to about 20,
but repeated windows defrag wouldn't get rid of isolated clusters at the
top end.

PM 3 wouldn't shrink the partition, so I bought PM 7 for $15 on ebay
(includied shipping!). I had LVM'd the machine after the partial shrink
and done some stuff (defining partitions in preparation for eCS install)
and then used PM7 to seriously shrink the C partition.  Subsequently LVM
threw up on a corrupt partition table.  Jan and I worked on this for a
while, but what worked nicely was to blow away LVM and everything except
the W2k partition and a couple of FAT partitions for W2k progs and data. 
Then went back and re-LVM'd and installed eCS 1.1 with not a single hitch.

Moral - use PM as needed to shrink an obstinate partition, but lock it
away once LVM is on the machine.
 
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