According to Peter B: While burning my CPU.
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> Greetings
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> OK...next dumb question.
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> How can I safely resize and create partitions in Linux, like you can
> with Partition Magic under Windows? I have a 8.4Gb drive all dedicated
> to Linux and it is having dramas with the 400Mb above 8Gb...don't know
> why as my BIOS is pretty state of the art, Award 4.51b 26 Feb 98...
There is no "safe" way of Repartitioning, altho' some programs might be
considered safe they can destroy all your data, if used improperly.
I do not know of any program which can repartition a drive under linux
without effecting data.
There is fdisk which will allow you to change disk parameters so will
cfdisk, but data will disapier.
> Secondly...how can I save the current partition table, i.e save it to a
> floppy or LS120 disk if I cock up? There's a util for Windows called
> part.exe which does this...how do I do this under Linux? I don't want to
> have to reinstall all this stuff again...
You could use fdisk to gather the information 'p' print partition table,
then cut and paste the text to a file for later referance.
As to a program to do this i know of none, but that does not mean there
are'nt any.
> Any help appreciated, and sorry for the clueless questions: I'll only
> ask them once!
I am quite sure others will have more comments for you, as i dont seem to
realy have answered your questions fully.
> 'Later
> Peter
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