Partition problem

Mario Vukelic mario.vukelic at dantian.org
Sat Oct 25 15:33:03 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 11:18 -0400, Rashkae wrote:
> that's exactly what 'growing' a parition does.  you erase the
> old partition, and write a new one with the new start/end values.

That's not what I would call "grow" as it effectively destroys the old
partition and its data and creates a new one. I would call "grow" and
"shrink" when only the size of the old partition is changed and its data
kept intact, in the same manner as the Ubuntu installer allows you to do
with pre-existing ntfs partitions.





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