Re: Partitioning Safely?
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:00:33 -0800
Mitchell Verter <mitchell.verter.toronto@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for all the dual boot advice.
>
> Now I need to partition the disk and move the Linux partition to the
> second partition
>
> I am looking at the Linux Partition HOWTO
> (http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/) and the parted manual (
> http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/parted.html#Introduction) I
> should run this off of a Knoppix CD, right?
>
> I bought the laptop with Debian installed, so I know little about
> it. I don't think there is much data on it and I probably don't care
> about keeping old data, just preserving important system files,
> programs, executables, etc.
>
> Is there a good way to find out where on the disk the data is
> written, so that you can be sure that your intended partition is
> empty of anything important? Is there a way to consolidate data to
> one area of the disk?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Mitch
You might want to look at 'partimage', for evaluation. It is on the
same Knoppix disk, boot using the 'knoppix 2' cheat code, no X.
--
Greg Madden
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