[ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 61, Issue 71

[Colin Law]

On 25 May 2010 13:34, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berkeley at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 13:06 +0100, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>> On 25 May 2010 12:29, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berkeley at googlemail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 12:00 +0100, Colin Law
>> <clanlaw at googlemail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >> Just to clarify to the OP, when a partition is moved using gparted
>> >> the data in the partition is moved with it, so this can be done
>> >> without affecting an existing system. ?It is always wise to ensure
>> >> backups are up to date before embarking on this sort of operation
>> >> however. One never knows when one is going to hit the wrong key or
>> >> click the wrong partition. Also I imagine that granny tripping over
>> >> the power lead in the middle of moving a partition might be
>> >> unfortunate for the data integrity as well as granny. Colin
>> > But that wouldn't work with the swap partition, would it? I can't
>> > just unmount that, move it down the disk, and mount it again?
>> It won't be mounted, when you boot off the live CD nothing on your
>> hard disk will be mounted.  It will not be using the swap there.  You
>> can boot off the live CD with no disk at all, or even one with Windows
>> on it! Colin
> Quite so, but I meant, not using a Live CD, just working from the
> computer's own resident OS, which is all in sda1, the boot volume. My
> idea was that while, necessarily, leaving that volume mounted, I can
> unmount and delete, recreate -- or, as I thought you were suggesting,
> move -- the other volumes without any difficulties.
>
> It does occur to me though that if I were to rename the new partitions,
> there might be files other than fstab and resume that would need
> altering accordingly. There might be other files that assume that the
> swap partition is sda3, and that the Home folder is in sda5, and would
> not be able to find them. So I would need a complete list of files that
> point to either the partition names or the UUIDs of the swap partition,
> and the Home folder, and its menu contents such as Documents, Music,
> Pictures, Video, etc.

I can't understand why you don't want to use the live CD.  Then none
of this is a problem.

Colin