a few things

[Janina Sajka]

The ext3 FAQ is at:

http://people.spoiled.org/jha/ext3-faq.html

Ext3 is available in the current Redhat beta called Roswell, which Bill 
has patched with speakup. The current Redhat designation is 7.1.94, and 
this will be Redhat 7.2 when released.

You may also want to look at the XFS site:

	http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/

They provide an XFS version of Redhat 7.1 for download. Of course, this 
does not contain speakup yet.



On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Holmes, Steve wrote:

> I guess the only other option would be to repartition the drive from scratch
> but then you lose all your data and have to reinstall the distro all over
> again. <yuck> sounds like windows to me:)
> 
> One other question, what are the advantages of Ext3 and who is using it now
> days?  I don't recall seeing it mentioned in slackware 8.0 either.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Janina Sajka [mailto:janina at afb.net]
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 12:03 PM
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: Re: a few things
> 
> 
> On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Kirk Wood wrote:
> 
> > As mentioned in another post your bios *must* be able to read the portion
> > of the hard drive containing /boot. If your bios doesn't recognize the
> > entire drive, then you will want a small partition near the begining of
> > the drive. Making a drive like this into a dual boot situation might be
> > tough. I believe it is doable, but I haven't managed.
> 
> I have done this a lot, but only with Partition Magic which is not free. 
> Furthermore, it is now only sold for Windows. So, I'm unlikely to keep 
> doing this myself, as I have continued to use their old DOS product to 
> accomplish this kind of thing--and I've now moved to the ext3 file system, 
> which the old DOS Partition Magic doesn't, and never will support.
> 
> The reason this has worked so well for me--the feature in Partition Magic 
> which makes this work, and the feature seemingly missing in Part Ed is the 
> ability to move a partition. Part Ed will resize, but I do not see where 
> it will literally move a p[artition left or right.
> 
> 
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