moving linux partitions

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Thu Aug 15 11:43:04 EDT 2002


Good point. Partition Magic 7.0 has been updated to support Windows XP NTFS 
partitions.  But, 5.0 should work fine with FAT, FAT32, EXT2 and Linux swap 
partitions. 
On 15 Aug 2002 at 11:33, Hewitt Tech wrote:

> Although Partition Magic is mostly well behaved, be careful using something
> like the Partition manager that's included with Mandrake. That partition
> manager doesn't play well with Windows as I found out the hard way. It marks
> extended partitions incorrectly and when Windows tries to access it, shazam,
> the entire partition table is blown away! I believe the most recent versions
> of the Mandrake distro correct this but I think it's worth mentioning.
>
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