well i'm no expert but since no-one else is saying this, i would guess that using pm could mess up your system in that if hdb11 is your boot/root partition then moving it could result in it aquiring a new number i.e. hdb12 and as far as i know lilo uses the partition info in lilo.conf, maybe set up a couple of extra entries in lilo for boot partitions that currently don't exist? and then use one of these to boot linux after messing with partitions? if you have a seperate /boot partition but hdb11 is currently / then i'm not sure what happens, as an aside you already appear to have 4 primary partitions, i'm not sure pm will let you create another one i think cat /dev/hd? /dev/hd?? is a way of copying the raw data from one partition to another, so i guess that if you can create a new partition that will hold all the data in hdb11 then you could copy all the data across and then add the new partition to lilo while keeping your current one in case of course this is all newbie talk so i expect my fundament to be shot down in flames! bascule Jeff Malka wrote: > > Not sure I understand. I can move the partition effortlessly using > Partition Magic. I just needed to know if this would mess up the path > structure or something else that linux uses. > > Is that what cat is about? > > Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Registered Linux user 183185 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Rivera, Oscar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 12:33 PM > Subject: RE: [expert] Moving partitions > > > you can use the cat command to move the partition. > > > > cat /dev/hd? > /dev/hd? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
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