On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 21:21:16 -0500, Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I never had to do this... so I'm curious. In step 2, you delete the partition > via fdisk and then specify a new size. Doing this doesn't destroy the data in > the partition? > > Amazing.
The partition table contains information about where all partitions begin and end. This is the only data that fdisk changes. As long as the starting point of the partitions remain unchanged, everything is fine. Make sure you don't make the partition smaller than the filesystem though... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
