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Re: Moving to reiserfs with kernel 2.4.3



Alex Suzuki <asuzuki@bluewin.ch> writes:

> I will use Partition Magic for this. It never failed me, and it is
> very easy to use. You can just pop in the 2 floppys and you have a
> fully-featured UI to shrink, move, convert, delete, create partitions.

I've never used Partition Magic, but if it can resize ext2 filesystems,
then it will do the trick. I used parted because I already had it, and
it did what I needed it to do.

> Does re-partitioning the drive not affect lilo? Will it still be
> able to find the kernel ie. boot?

I don't think that the re-partitioning affected lilo, which makes sense,
since the boot partition isn't being moved, it's just being shrunk. If
it does affect lilo, then add a step after the parted and before
rebooting:

 mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
 chroot /mnt lilo -v

I honestly can't recall if I had to do that or not.

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