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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Logical Disk Partitions
Keywords: Disk Partitions Dynamic partition resizing
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Date: 21 Jul 89 14:43:54 GMT
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In article <927@wucs1.wustl.edu> kahn@wucs1.wustl.edu (Michael Kahn) writes:
>I am looking for software that will partition a large hard disk drive
>into multiple smaller logical disks.  I know that many products of
>this type exist but most require you to pre-specify the partition size
>at the onset, and any attempt to resize the partitions require you to
>clear off the diskette, resize the partitions, and reload the disk.
>
>Does anybody know of a disk partitioning program that allows me to
>resize partitions without having to unload and reload the current
>partitions.  A rumor that Absoft has such a program but I cannot
>confirm it.
>
	SilverLining, from LaCie, is such a disk utility; you can dynamically
create and resize partitions (or destroy them) without having to reformat
your hard disk. It works quite well.

		--Rich



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 Rich Siegel
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 Symantec Corporation, Language Products Group
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