Re: Partitioning after-effects
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 06:48:50AM +0800, csj wrote:
| I'm planning to repartition part of my HD. Previously, I only
| partitioned the whole drive as part of a Linux reinstallation. So I'm
| somewhat clueless about partitions and partitioning. The tool I'm most
| comfortable with is cfdisk. So replies which take into account this tool
| are most appreciated.
|
| My question: Suppose I have hda5 to hda22. I want to delete hda5, hda6
| and hda7 and create a new partition from the empty space.
|
| What would happen to my current hda8, hda9, etc.? Would hda8 be renamed
| to hda6 (hda9 to hda7)? More importantly, can I delete a lower numbered
| partition (hda6) without affecting the contents of higher numbered
| partitions (=> hda8)?
If you don't touch the higher numbered partitions, then they won't be
affected other than (potentially) getting renamed/renumbered by the
OS. I believe that the parttions will be renumbered, but that will
only affect your /etc/fstab, nothing else. (Unlike some other OSes I
know of!)
HTH,
-D
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