According to Michael Ricketts: While burning my CPU.
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> On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Richard Adams wrote:
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> > > How can I safely resize and create partitions in Linux, like you can
> > > with Partition Magic under Windows? I have a 8.4Gb drive all dedicated
> > > to Linux and it is having dramas with the 400Mb above 8Gb...don't know
> > > why as my BIOS is pretty state of the art, Award 4.51b 26 Feb 98...
> >
> > There is no "safe" way of Repartitioning, altho' some programs might be
> > considered safe they can destroy all your data, if used improperly.
> >
> > I do not know of any program which can repartition a drive under linux
> > without effecting data.
> > There is fdisk which will allow you to change disk parameters so will
> > cfdisk, but data will disapier.
> >
> Theoretically fdisk doesn't destroy any data. I'm not sure I'd trust it
> though...
Theoretically just change some paramters and it will "look" to a newbie that
his data has dissapiered, thats why i worded my message like i did.
However you are correct, dont forget a newcommer could panick and "think his
data" has gone for ever, dont play with traffic, you will get run over.
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> Mike
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Regards Richard.
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