He is right, however, that it would be nice to have the option of automatically re-writing fstab, similar to the way PartionMagic remaps drives. I'm a little surprised they haven't done that already.
Miark On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 17:35:09 +0000 Daryl Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And yet curiously, when you run DiskDrake, the first message you get is an > injunction to ensure that your data is backed up >o> > > Anytime you decide to re-partition or resize your drive(s) you are dicing > with (disk) disaster. It is pointless to complain afterwards about the > effects of a repartition/resize not working as you expected. > > It is certainly possible, using partition Magic, for example, to resize and > repartition disks and partitions containing live data -and it works (sorry > maybe that should be 'AND IT WORKS!!!!!' to convey the appropriate level of > incredulity) > > The fact is that spreading files across disk partitions just for ordinary, > everyday usage is a major feat of engineering. Expecting to be able to > tinker with those layouts risk free is perhaps more than a little optimistic. > > At least you retained your /home directories. > > regards > > Daryl > > > On Tuesday 05 November 2002 4:52 pm, you wrote: > > Hi ! > > > > First of all I want to explain my environment: > > > > I had 3 ntfs partitions (500MB, 10Gig, 800MB), 2 Fat32 Partitions (2x10 > > Gig),3 Gig ext3 for system, 5 Gig Reiser for home and a littlebit swap. > > > > Today I tought I didn't need that 800 Meg Ntfs and could delete it and make > > a ext3 out of that. So I started diskdrake and delete it, causing that all > > partitions got renumbered. Fine I thought, so diskdrake will rewrite my > > fstab too. After trying to make a ext3-partition on the 800 Megs of free > > space, diskdrake told me to restart in order to make the changes take > > effect. No matter I thought , do a reboot. > > > > The effects: > > -> kernel panic on shutting down > > -> kernel panic on boot > > > > starting rescue mode: > > -> "/"-partition wasn't there anymore (was there but with filesystem > > 0xFFFFFF) -> trough the renumbering all entries in fstab was wrong (looked > > at it before reboot, no matter here since I had at least to do a full > > install anyway) > > > > Now I did a new install and it works all... > > > > What I want to mention: > > > > diskdrake should not screw up my whole system, at least it should make the > > fstab entries right after changes in the partitiontable. Thanks god that my > > /home wasn't screwed. > >
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