Just remember - it make no difference where you move a partition's content under Linux. The only problem that could show up is with Lilo/Grub - but if you adapt fstab accordingly, and the directories exist - it works.A word of warning here ...
If by mistake you delete the partition table - and had a printout of fdisk -l /dev/hdx for the start/end points - the last time it worked - you can recover the data without a problem. That's why I never do backups... I do as Linus said a long time ago: "Backups are for cowards. Post it to the Internet - and the Net will back it up for you"
Any procedure that changes the start or end sector of a bootable partition will render the partition unbootable.
So you must firstly have a floppy boot (mkbootdisk) for that partition and kernel version. After moving the partition on the same drive do a boot from this floppy and rerun lilo or grub to fix it
Any action that causes a bootable partition to be renumbered will render the partition unbootable.
The only fix is to add dummy partitions or remove or shift partitions so that the original partition number is restored.
Any action that causes a bootable partition to be shifted to another drive will render the new partition unbootable.
Copy the partition, don't move it! You must have a floppy boot (mkbootdisk) for the new partition and kernel version. This is not easy to create - use chroot mkbootdisk from the original working Linux partition. Do a boot from this floppy and rerun lilo or grub to fix it. Only now may the original partition be deleted.
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