Re: tlug: Libretto

[Dmytro Kovalev <kovald@example.com>]

>>>>> "Frank" == Frank Bennett <bennett@example.com> writes:

    Frank> A common reason for failure or disabling of power-down
    Frank> hibernation is the reformatting of the hard disk.  Early
    Frank> Librettos required that an area the size of memory be left
    Frank> unformatted at the end of the disk.  Other laptops, and
    Frank> probably the more modern Librettos, require a specially
    Frank> formatted partition on the disk, which the BIOS identifies

In my case (I am using Compaq Armada 1510) I have file named something 
like hibrn*.dat on DOS partition. 

Originally I splited partition with fips leaving for Windows staff
about 400M and Linux ~600M. I haven't booted into Win even once since
I installed Linux and step by step I deleted one Win directory after
another to free space for linux files. 

What I discovered is that the same linux directory takes on umsdos
partition up to 20% more space (usually if it consists of a lot small
files). 

Anybody knows, is such file as hibrn*.dat any kind of special file on
DOS partition, .i.e. can I shrink DOS partition just to the size of
that file? I hope it should not be fragmented, but I am not sure. And
if it is fragmented can I run dos defragment on it?

    Frank> If your received a maintenance CD with the machine, look
    Frank> into it and see if you can find a DOS utility that looks

Unfortunately I don't have any native DOS software for it. All I had
was on hard disk and is already wiped. So I'm afraid if I do anything
wrong with hibernation mode I'll not be able to restore it.

    Frank> Toshiba support or their Web site.  Power-down hibernation
    Frank> is really handy; it's worth putting in a bit of extra work

I love it

Thanks, 

Dmytro

    Frank> if you can get it to function on your machine.

    Frank> Cheers, -- -x80 Frank G Bennett, Jr @@ Faculty of Law,
    Frank> Nagoya Univ () email: bennett@example.com Tel:
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