Re: [**solved by a reboot**] moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk

2006-02-20 Thread Daniel B.
Levi Waldron wrote: 3. after changing your partition table, you really do have to reboot - at least this is my best guess as to what the problem was. Sometimes you can avoid the need to reboot: If you can unmount every other partition that is on the disk whose partition table you are

Re: [**solved by a reboot**] moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk

2006-02-20 Thread Mike McCarty
Daniel B. wrote: Levi Waldron wrote: 3. after changing your partition table, you really do have to reboot - at least this is my best guess as to what the problem was. Sometimes you can avoid the need to reboot: If you can unmount every other partition that is on the disk whose partition

Re: [**solved by a reboot**] moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk

2006-02-20 Thread Mike McCarty
Daniel B. wrote: Levi Waldron wrote: 3. after changing your partition table, you really do have to reboot - at least this is my best guess as to what the problem was. Sometimes you can avoid the need to reboot: If you can unmount every other partition that is on the disk whose

[**solved by a reboot**] moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk

2006-02-17 Thread Levi Waldron
So I got up this morning (on the west coast, as you hoped), booted up into knoppix again, and started backing up my MBR and first sector of each partition. Then I noticed an icon on the knoppix desktop listing hda7 as a mountable partition, so I thought I'd try it again. Exactly the same way as

Re: [**solved by a reboot**] moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk

2006-02-17 Thread Mike McCarty
Levi Waldron wrote: So I got up this morning (on the west coast, as you hoped), booted up into knoppix again, and started backing up my MBR and first sector of each partition. Then I noticed an icon on the knoppix desktop listing hda7 as a mountable partition, so I thought I'd try it again.

Re: [**solved by a reboot**] moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk

2006-02-17 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 10:40:27AM -0800, Levi Waldron wrote: So I got up this morning (on the west coast, as you hoped), booted up into knoppix again, and started backing up my MBR and first sector of each partition. Then I noticed an icon on the knoppix desktop listing hda7 as a mountable