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 ask why) I have a 5.3 GB linuxExt2 main linux
> partition (hdb11). Beyond this extended partition I have my /usr, swap,
> /opt, /home partitions (hdb2, hdb3, hdb4).
>
> I own a full copy of Partition Magic which I used during the install. I
> would like to move the main linux partition "out" of the windows extended
> partition into free space beyond it.. If I moved it using Partition Magic,
> from within NT, will I still be able to boot into linux and will the
> partition move mess up things in linux?
This may be a silly question, but why do you want to move it? "If it
works, don't fix it."
Meanwhile, it would probably help if you gave us a more detailed view of
the drive in question. As root:
fdisk -l /dev/hdb
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