On 25 May 2010 12:29, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berke...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 12:00 +0100, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> > wrote: >> Just to clarify to the OP, when a partition is moved using gparted the >> data in the partition is moved with it, so this can be done without >> affecting an existing system. It is always wise to ensure backups are >> up to date before embarking on this sort of operation however. One >> never knows when one is going to hit the wrong key or click the wrong >> partition. Also I imagine that granny tripping over the power lead in >> the middle of moving a partition might be unfortunate for the data >> integrity as well as granny. Colin > But that wouldn't work with the swap partition, would it? I can't just > unmount that, move it down the disk, and mount it again?
It won't be mounted, when you boot off the live CD nothing on your hard disk will be mounted. It will not be using the swap there. You can boot off the live CD with no disk at all, or even one with Windows on it! Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
