Re: repartitioning without destroying current partition
Someone is developing such program as part of the RAID project, though I
don't know the progress as I am not using RAID.
Dave Cinege wrote:
>
> 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.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> http://www.psychosis.com/emc/ Elite MicroComputers 908-541-4214
> http://www.psychosis.com/linux-router/ Linux Router Project
>
> --
> TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
> debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org .
> Trouble? e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org .
Trouble? e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .
Reply to: