I have a tri-boot system: sda1 win98; sda2, sda5, and sda6 OS/2; and
sdb5, sdb6 linux (swap partition for Linux is on sda 7).
Unfortunately, I created this scheme using linux's fdisk. Now, I want
to resize my sda partitions using partition magic (or fips) but, to my
horror, I find that linux's fdisk has a documented "bug" that causes it
to create non-sequential partition bounderies, e.g.:
sda1 1-300
sda4 301-1200
sda5 500-1200
sda6 301-499
This "bug" (or feature if you will) causes both Windoze and OS/2 to be
unable to read the partition table!!! And more importantly, makes it
impossible to resize a partition. The Partition Magic people recommend
blowing out the enture partition table and recreating it using OS/2 or
Win98 fdisk. There must be a better way.
I am looking for solutions.
I have the following idea but do not know how to implement it: renumber
the partitions so that they are in sequential order. In the example
above, sda5 and sda6 would just be swapped. This would of course change
the drive lettering, but I can deal with that (I think). The question
is how to edit the partition table to reflect the correct sequential
order of partitions???
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