Change partitions?

[Karl Larsen]

Ed Jabbour wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 July 2008  Nils Kassube wrote:
>   
>>> Ed Jabbour wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Current partition table:
>>>>
>>>> sdb1, primary .............................. empty
>>>> sdb2, primary .............................. backup files
>>>> sdb3, ........................................... extended
>>>> sdb5, logical ................................. ubuntu installation
>>>> sdb6, logical ................................. swap
>>>>
>>>> I'd like it to be:
>>>>
>>>> sdb1, primary .............................. ubuntu installation
>>>> sdb2, primary .............................. backup files
>>>> sdb3, primary ............................... swap
>>>>
>>>> If possible, I want to avoid re-installation of the OS.  Is there any
>>>> way just to change the partitions, leaving whatever is on them intact?
>>>> gparted's copy won't do it, I hear.  Any hints, pointers, etc. greatly
>>>> appreciated.
>>>>         
>>> Could you be a bit more specific what you want to have in the end? What
>>> is the size of the individual partitions now and what should it be after
>>> the modification?
>>>       
>
> Now:
> sdb1  77GB	
> sdb2  62GB w/ 59 GB used	
> sdb5  89 GB w/ 28 GB used 	
> sdb6  3200 MB
>
> After:
> sdb1 140GB
> sdb2   90GB
> sdb6  3200MB
>
> More or less - if that adds up OK.
>
> On Tuesday 15 July 2008 Rashkae wrote:
>   
>> No matter how you look at it, the only "sane" way to do this is to have
>> a second hard drive to use as temp storage, so you can copy data off the
>> drive, repartition, then copy back.
>>     
>
> gparted has a copy function, but I think I read somewhere that a simple copy 
> of an OS to a partition wouldn't boot properly.  Is that right?  There is a 
> second drive - sda - but it's full.  If the copy from sdb5 to sdb1 will boot, 
> there's no problem repartitioning, I think.
>
>   
    You can use dd or cp -a and both work fine. Yes it will not boot 
from /dev/sgb1 because grub is set up for /dev/sdb5.

    Read about grub and see if you can see what you need to do. You need 
to change /boot/grub/menu.lst

Karl


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