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From: mc5686 AT mclink DOT it (Mauro Condarelli)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Lots of small files in DJGPP waste space & should be chained up!
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 06:42:40 GMT
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peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock) wrote:

>Pierre HANSER (ph AT garner DOT sxb DOT bsf DOT alcatel DOT fr) wrote:
>: It should be noted that there is a really nice program, fips, that
>: allows repartitionning without reformating

>But will fips change the cluster size when it shrinks a partition?  If not,
>you still need to reformat to gain any space advantage from repartitioning.
It doesn't.
But you can do things incrementally:
- defrag
- shrink your partition
- create new partition (extende)
- format new drive on extended partition
- coppy everything in new partition
- reformat primary partition

Anyway, as far as the original posting is concerned, whats'wrong
with CVS ??
No problem writimg make rules to ssupport it.

Best Regards