Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Mark_Peter_Cookson
From: Mark_Peter_Cookson@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: SUM ( HD Partition )
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Date: 1 Sep 88 21:31:21 GMT
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Oooh, bummer....  The problem is that SUM wants the free space to be contigious
and will only creat a partition in contigious space.  Not to mention that, the
space has to be empty.  You need to either backup your drive, format it and
then copy all the stuff back, or get a utility (I can't remember its name)
that will make your HD contigious again.  The util from SUM is good, but not
good enough, and I can't remember the one that does it.  But it reads in like
two or three files at a time and erases the space they were in and then copies
them back so that they are contigious.  This is what you need to do, but it
takes about as long as backing up and restoring.  If you have a tape backup,
or access to a second HD larger than yours, use it!  You might try using
PowerUp and telling it to erase free space, that might let you make a bigger
partition, but will not help you totaly....

Mark Cookson