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From: mhr@mendip.UUCP (MHR {who?})
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: FDISK
Summary: Do NOT screw around with FDISK.
Message-ID: <15744@mendip.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 91 00:39:36 GMT
References: <1991Mar23.041821.29165@cs.mcgill.ca>
Organization: ICL North America
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In <1991Mar23.041821.29165@cs.mcgill.ca>, storm@cs.mcgill.ca writes:
> 
> Can I make a LOGICAL drive on my hard drive using FDISK when there the
> drive is already half filled, or should I back  everything up and work from
> there....?
> 
I'm not sure what you mean here, but I can summarize my advice in 5
words (more direct than the subject line):

DO NOT FUCK WITH FDISK!

Fdisk is for organizing your hard drive _once_, not several times.  If
you want to reorganize, fine, but back up everything first or else be
prepared to say "Bye bye" to all of it.

Really, people, it wasn't by accident that utilities like FDISK are hard
to use.  Do some advance thinking and planning the FIRST time you run it
and you won't have to do it ever again (on that disk).

Them's _my_ $.02 apples!

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