Re: [gentoo-user] Re: partition resizing question

2006-05-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 05 May 2006 18:38, Leigh Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Re: partition resizing question': im concerned that some data, configuration etc may depend on or expect to be locate at a certain physical location on disk... The only thing that should depend

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: partition resizing question

2006-05-05 Thread Leigh Stewart
Ok so i cant move swap into the 10Gbs i set aside for microstink at the end of the disk, so to move my root linux partition forward, should I be able to tar the entire filesystem from a livecd for example, then delete and recreate the partitions as needed, then untar the tarred filesystem into

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: partition resizing question

2006-05-05 Thread Leigh Stewart
i found an even better solution... credit goes to: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Windows_after_Gentoo#Installing_Windows (gentoo really shines in the support department) turns out that although windows will not create a new partition at the end of the disk, it has no problem installing

[gentoo-user] Re: partition resizing question

2006-05-04 Thread Peter
On Thu, 04 May 2006 16:58:13 -0400, Leigh Stewart wrote: I recently decided to resize my reiserfs root partition, used resize_reiserfs to shrink the filesystem, then used cfdisk to resize the device. Everything went according to plan, although it was a somewhat unnerving experience because