Re: repartitioning without destroying current partition
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997 17:15:52 -0400 (EDT), Sue Campbell wrote:
>Is it possible to repartition a drive without damaging the contents of
>an existing partition? I've heard that some other distributions have this
>capability and it is a shame that we have no mention of this in our
>installation instructions. We don't want other distributions to have
>a leg up on us in any aspect.
>
>I'm guessing that it's done using a program that smashes the contents
>of the partition to the beginning of that partition. I realize it's
>a bit risky, but using the current method, you destroy the contents
>anyway.
With FAT yes, you can even do it by hands if you know hat you are doing.
With ext2, I'm not sure. md linear is always available.
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