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> > From: Rivera, Oscar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > Subject: RE: [expert] Moving partitions
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Thanks.
Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Moving partitions
> Larry Marshall wrote:
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Thank you.
Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Nikolay V. Kursov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Moving partitions
> > When I fi
Larry Marshall wrote:
> Partition Magic will move the data as the partition is moved. If I
> understood what he was asking, there'd be no change in fstab. Most likely
> /boot would still be /dev/hda5. Maybe I didn't understand what he was
> asking.
If a Linux partition is copied, the copy wil
> When I first installed linux, for reasons I no longer remember I installed
> Mandrake 7.1 as follows on my 8 GB second HD:
>
> I have a windows extended partition of 5.3 GB. Within and at the end of
> this extended partition (don't ask why) I have a 5.3 GB linuxExt2 main linux
> partition (hdb
> No. Cat will move the data, but won't modify how the partitions are
> mounted. What you need to do is move the data around from partition to
> partition, then edit /etc/fstab to mount the new partition where the old
> one was. That will preserve your paths and other data.
Partition Magic will m
> Not sure I understand. I can move the partition effortlessly using
> Partition Magic. I just needed to know if this would mess up the path
> structure or something else that linux uses.
>
> Is that what cat is about?
No Jeff, you wouldn't use cat to move a partition. It's useful for
stream
that linux uses.
> >
> > Is that what cat is about?
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> > Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > you can use the cat command to move the partition.
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> > cat /dev/hd? > /dev/hd?
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> From: Rivera, Oscar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 12:33 PM
> Subject: RE: [expert] Moving partitions
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ou can't just create a new primary or extended partition, and go from
there. You can have only four partitions in the MBR, /dev/hdx[1-4]. So you
will have to delete at least one primary and use that slot to create an
extended partition. I'd delete hdb2, which is the last partition on the
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From: Rivera, Oscar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 12:33 PM
Subject: RE: [expert] Moving partitions
> you can use the cat command to move the partition.
>
> cat /dev/hd? > /dev/hd?
Keep in touch with http://man
you can use the cat command to move the partition.
cat /dev/hd? > /dev/hd?
Oscar
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From: Jeff Malka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 8:58 AM
To: expert mandrake
Cc: Charles Curley
Subject: Re: [expert] Moving partitions
> This ma
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Hope this helps.
Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 11:00
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 10:16:15AM -0400, Jeff Malka wrote:
> When I first installed linux, for reasons I no longer remember I installed
> Mandrake 7.1 as follows on my 8 GB second HD:
>
> I have a windows extended partition of 5.3 GB. Within and at the end of
> this extended partition (don't as
When I first installed linux, for reasons I no longer remember I installed
Mandrake 7.1 as follows on my 8 GB second HD:
I have a windows extended partition of 5.3 GB. Within and at the end of
this extended partition (don't ask why) I have a 5.3 GB linuxExt2 main linux
partition (hdb11). Beyond
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