Weird, I used DrakConf to repartition a HD and it worked pretty well.
However, DrakConf only works with fat32 and ext2 filesystem, not with
NTFS. Thats why I think you lost your fstab.
Cheers,
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Miark wrote:
> He is right, however, that it would be nice to have the option of
> automatically re-writing fstab, similar to the way PartionMagic
> remaps drives. I'm a little surprised they haven't done that already.
>
> Miark
>
>
> On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 17:35:09 +0000
> Daryl Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > 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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Alan Wilter S. da Silva
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Laboratório de Física Biológica
Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho
Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ
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