On Thursday 27 December 2007 15:22:05 Ragu wrote: > Hi Saifi, > > I think you want to have the resultant partition pattern, than > actually merging first and the last partition. > > I had some success with unusual altering of partitions. Try gParted > liveCD. It is much safer and better than using gParted from an > installed linux distro. Think about mixing the following aspects of > partitioning to get to the desired result: backup, shrink, merge, > move, format. > > Note: We had 10gb partition with 5gb of data. We shrunk the partition > to 7gb. gParted liveCD took care of moving files from the remaining > 3gb space and made sure the partition is still consistent without any > data loss. > > Cheers, > Ragu
Hi Ragu: Thanks for your suggestion about gParted liveCD version. i'm going to take a closer look at the liveCD version as i messed up partition data when i used the gParted installed with distro. -- thanks Saifi.
