Meeting topic

[gaf at palantir.newton.ma.us (Gerald Feldman)]

Albert Cahalan <albert at ccs.neu.edu> writes:

> > Wednesday, July 19, 1995 (volunteer meeting July 12)
> > 	still pending as of May 24
> 
> Idea: Partitioning with OS/2, NT, Windows 95, DOS, BSD,
> Solaris, SCO, BootMangler, raw swap, and Linux.
> 
> Why: I had to edit my partition table with a _hex_editor_!!!
> I'm not sure what 'format C:' would format, maybe results vary
> by OS.  (the C partition or the partition that would become C?)
> Linux is usually good about this sort of thing, but I still had
> to use a hex editor to move partition table entries.  What if I
> needed to move the whole partition?  Then there are extended
> partitions...
> 
> Maybe this could be covered with some of the other PC user groups.
Sounds like a good idea for a better partition editor. I hate every 
fdisk I have ever used.