partition headaches

Mel Wilson mwilson-4YeSL8/OYKRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org
Thu Jul 27 20:02:20 UTC 2006


Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> The NTFS partition IS first in the partition list, but last on the disk
> physically according to the cylinder number.  It is the position on the
> disk that is a problem, not the location in the partition table.  Short
> of moving partitions around somehow (which means deleting some partition
> of the disk to make room), it can't really be done.

Has anybody used GNU parted lately?  It had quite a bit of
power to resize partitions and shuffle them around.  (I last
had to mess with this in 2002.  A lot could have changed since
then.)

         Mel.
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml





More information about the Legacy mailing list