On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Dumb question is: can I change my root partition to type extended and > create two logical partitions (one holding the original root stuff, the > other for Linux from Scratch things) within it? Without destroying my > beloved Debian system? What are the other three partitions you mention doing? Can't one of them be resized instead? Messing around with the root partition is possible, but not easy. The problem is that you need to reboot after re-partitioning the disk, and before making filesystems on the new partitions. If you touch the root partition during re-partitioning, it may be that your Debian system becomes unbootable. A kind of Catch-22 situation. You will anyway need to backup all your data before attempting anything so drastic, and most times you'll end up restoring from backup, too. There is a fairly "non-intrusive" way to do this by borrowing a second empty hard disk, copying the system to it, making it bootable, checking everything is there and only then re-partitioning the original disk, copying the system back, and making that bootable. Once the original disk has booted again and you've checked everything is there, the borrowed disk can be returned. I understand that hard disks don't generally lie around waiting for people to borrow them for copying systems over, but if you do happen to have access to an extra disk I'd be happy to talk you through the process. Best regards, | George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., | | tel: +357 99 68 08 86 Strovolos, | | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicosia CY 2057, | | web: www.karaolides.com Republic of Cyprus |
