On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 06:53:53PM +0100, bascule wrote: > well i'm no expert but since no-one else is saying this, i would guess > that using pm could mess up your system in that if hdb11 is your > boot/root partition then moving it could result in it aquiring a new > number i.e. hdb12 and as far as i know lilo uses the partition info in > lilo.conf, maybe set up a couple of extra entries in lilo for boot > partitions that currently don't exist? and then use one of these to boot > linux after messing with partitions? if you have a seperate /boot > partition but hdb11 is currently / then i'm not sure what happens, as an > aside you already appear to have 4 primary partitions, i'm not sure pm > will let you create another one > > i think cat /dev/hd? /dev/hd?? is a way of copying the raw data from one > partition to another, so i guess that if you can create a new partition > that will hold all the data in hdb11 then you could copy all the data > across and then add the new partition to lilo while keeping your current > one in case > > of course this is all newbie talk so i expect my fundament to be shot > down in flames! Actually, bascule, you reminded me that I didn't talk about lilo at all in my comments, so thank you. If he re-arranges his partitions, he will almost certaily have to edit /etc/lilo.conf and re-run lilo. Details on how to edit it and re-run lilo using tomsrtbt are in my LJ article on bare metal restore. > > bascule > > Jeff Malka wrote: > > > > Not sure I understand. I can move the partition effortlessly using > > Partition Magic. I just needed to know if this would mess up the path > > structure or something else that linux uses. > > > > Is that what cat is about? > > > > Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Registered Linux user 183185 > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Rivera, Oscar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 12:33 PM > > Subject: RE: [expert] Moving partitions > > > > > you can use the cat command to move the partition. > > > > > > cat /dev/hd? > /dev/hd? > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. > > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. -- -- C^2 No windows were crashed in the making of this email. Looking for fine software and/or web pages? http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley
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