Partition problem

[Eberhard Roloff]

Karl Larsen wrote:

>     Love the analogy. I recall now that parted and gparted are both 
> based on fdisk. 

fdisk is just one of the applications that they rely on

But both do not have the capability to write a new hard
> drive dos instruction set in ram, and then write it to the hard drive. 

Sorry to correct you, they do! Ex. I use it all the time to alter 
partitions, delete partitions, create partitions... And I would not use 
it, if it could not write the new partiton data to the harddisk. :-)

> This is where you can ruin a hard drive, or do what I need to do to 
> regain 100 gb of my hard drive.
Well, at least it is very easy to ruin the data on the harddrive. And 
this is what counts.


> 
>     It is VERY dangerous!

indeed it is. My professional advice is:

If you do not have a proper backup of anything and you do not feel 100% 
confident that you can do it yourself, better stay away from it. Or have 
someone do it who has the experience to do it for you.

kind regards
Eberhard