How can I move disc partitions using fdisk ?
I can only create a new empty partition?
Am 10-Dec-99 schrieb Richard Adams ::
> On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Tom Bernett wrote about, Resizing Disk Partitions.:
>> Hi List;
>>
>> I'd like to increase the size of some of my linux partitions. I
>> remember reading some cautions about changing linux partitions, but I
>> didn't understand them at the time (even more of a newbie then!), and I
>> can't find them now.
>>
>> I'm dual booting OS/2 and linux using OS/2 Boot Manager. Lilo is in the
>> linux /. Here's what I have;
>>
>> hda2 /
>> hda3 C: OS/2 hpfs
>> hda4 OS/2 Boot Manager
>> hda5 D: OS/2 hpfs
>> hda6 /home
>> hda7 /opt
>> hda8 /usr
>> hda9 linux swap
>> Free Space - 5 Gig.
>>
>> I also have an empty 1.6 gig spare drive.
>>
>> I don't have to disturb the OS/2 or linux / partitions. All my changes
>> will be in hda6 and up.
>>
>> Since I have a lot of space, can I just boot floppy and, one by one,
>> create new linux partitions at the end of the drive, mkfs them, and
>> transfer (cp or tar) each linux partition out until I have the
>> arrangement I want?
>>
>
> Why boot with a floppy.? you dont need to reboot to change the partitions
> providing they are empty and you are not going to touch any working
> "mounted partitions".
>
> Just use fdisk to remove the parttions then resize the piece of the disk
> thats left over.
>
> It might be advisable to reboot afterwards, but i dnt see any "critical"
> need to.
>
> after repartitioning and the possable reboot you can use mke2fs on each
> partition to create the file system.
>
>>
>> My OS/2 stuff is backed up, but I can't back my linux stuff to tape. (I
>> tried installing ftape (both tar.gz and rpm versions)but ran into
>> problems. So I need a method which is pretty safe. Can I use the 1.6
>> gig (hdb) to back up my linux stuff as insurance?
>
> Sure why not, you can backup all your stuff.
>
>> Thanks in advance for any help.
>>
>> Tom (about a 9 out of 10 on the newbie scale)
> --
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> Merry Xmas.
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