Why is this so serious? I have had no problems. I just needed more space. And even if I do this, how will I know that I will not just have the same problem as I did? I do have an external hard drive lying around somewhere, but I just know that if I try this, some problem will occur.
Oh Dear! NAIVE! Welcome to the Land of Partition Table Anarchy!
The problem is that there is no industry-accepted standard for partitioning of hard disks, nor is there any authority with the necessary clout.
So Windows does it one way, Unix another, Sun another, Linux another. As an example of the problem, Windows keeps the partition table entries in order of partition start cylinder, whereas Linux keeps them in time of creation order. Neither can cope with the other, unless you carefully created them in start cylinder order.
Chaos? You bet!
The linux utility that I recommended, cfdisk, presents in start cylinder order, and has an option to sort the tables into start cylinder order, which is one reason I recommend it, but you must explicitly ask for it every time.
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Ron. [Melbourne, Australia]
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