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Article #3742Re: How to repartitioning an existing HD having DOS and Linux
From: Judah Milgram
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 1995 00:00
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 1995 00:00
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In article <PRZEMEK.95Sep7173730@rrdjazz.nist.gov>, Przemek Klosowski <przemek@rrdjazz.nist.gov> wrote: >Manjit asked > > 1. How can I get to increase my DOS partition size to be the entire 540MB of > my original disk without losing any data or DOS config/setup? > 2. How can I transfer my existing Linux partition(s) safely (w/o losing any > data or config) to the new HD? [approach] ... to which I'd add: if you put an additional swap partition on the new HD, be careful with mkswap as it doesn't check to see if the partition type really is Linux swap. Once I did something like what Przemek outlined, then got careless, and mkswapped my dos partition, wiping it out. (This turned out to be a good thing, but that's besides the point) - J
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11663c,fffa5315ef673570 X-Google-Attributes: gid11663c,public From: milgram@Glue.umd.edu (Judah Milgram) Subject: Re: How to repartitioning an existing HD having DOS and Linux Date: 1995/09/07 Message-ID: <42nv2d$mi6@cub.umd.edu> X-Deja-AN: 109755600 distribution: usa references: <MANJIT.95Sep6161938@kuki.tis.com> <PRZEMEK.95Sep7173730@rrdjazz.nist.gov> organization: University of Maryland, College Park newsgroups: dc.org.linux-users