And yet curiously, when you run DiskDrake, the first message you get is an injunction to ensure that your data is backed up >o>
Anytime you decide to re-partition or resize your drive(s) you are dicing with (disk) disaster. It is pointless to complain afterwards about the effects of a repartition/resize not working as you expected. It is certainly possible, using partition Magic, for example, to resize and repartition disks and partitions containing live data -and it works (sorry maybe that should be 'AND IT WORKS!!!!!' to convey the appropriate level of incredulity) The fact is that spreading files across disk partitions just for ordinary, everyday usage is a major feat of engineering. Expecting to be able to tinker with those layouts risk free is perhaps more than a little optimistic. At least you retained your /home directories. regards Daryl On Tuesday 05 November 2002 4:52 pm, you wrote: > Hi ! > > First of all I want to explain my environment: > > I had 3 ntfs partitions (500MB, 10Gig, 800MB), 2 Fat32 Partitions (2x10 > Gig),3 Gig ext3 for system, 5 Gig Reiser for home and a littlebit swap. > > Today I tought I didn't need that 800 Meg Ntfs and could delete it and make > a ext3 out of that. So I started diskdrake and delete it, causing that all > partitions got renumbered. Fine I thought, so diskdrake will rewrite my > fstab too. After trying to make a ext3-partition on the 800 Megs of free > space, diskdrake told me to restart in order to make the changes take > effect. No matter I thought , do a reboot. > > The effects: > -> kernel panic on shutting down > -> kernel panic on boot > > starting rescue mode: > -> "/"-partition wasn't there anymore (was there but with filesystem > 0xFFFFFF) -> trough the renumbering all entries in fstab was wrong (looked > at it before reboot, no matter here since I had at least to do a full > install anyway) > > Now I did a new install and it works all... > > What I want to mention: > > diskdrake should not screw up my whole system, at least it should make the > fstab entries right after changes in the partitiontable. Thanks god that my > /home wasn't screwed.
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