On Monday, 13.12.2004 at 08:50 -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: > >I have used qtparted for a couple of years to resize partitions, without > >any problems. > > Interesting. Will this work if I have to fix partitions that do not > end on cylinder boundaries? > > > fdisk -l /dev/hdc > > Disk /dev/hdc: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 79656 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hdc1 * 1 64 32098+ 83 Linux > Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: > phys=(3, 254, 63) should be (3, 15, 63) > /dev/hdc2 64 79401 39985785 5 Extended > Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary: > phys=(1023, 254, 63) should be (1023, 15, 63) > /dev/hdc5 64 1052 497983+ 82 Linux swap > /dev/hdc6 1052 39812 19535008+ 83 Linux > /dev/hdc7 39812 59192 9767488+ 83 Linux > /dev/hdc8 59192 79401 10185178+ 83 Linux > > I was planning repartition using fdisk but if there is a tool to > change the partitions w/o having to later format the partitions, > great! To be honest, I'm not sure. If you were planning to re-partition and fdisk, then you'll be backing up anyway ... So, do you backup, then try qtparted :-) Dave. -- Dave Ewart - davee@sungate.co.uk - jabber: davee@jabber.org All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
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