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>A.5. Shrinking DOS partitions</H1
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>&#13;A partition is shrunk when sectors are removed from the end of the
partition.
Because a partition must end on a cylinder boundary, a partition is
shrunk by removing cylinder amounts from the end of the segment.</P
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>&#13;There is one shrink option, as follows:</P
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>The amount by which you want to reduce the size of the segment.
Because a segment ends on a cylinder boundary, this value must be
some multiple of the disk's cylinder size.
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