I have found that partition magic is a great way to do this, it has
allowed me to resize and move all of my partitions. a word of waring
tho - BACKUP FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!
of course ymmv,
-e
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 12:47:01AM -0800, C Heath wrote:
>Does anyone know if the system running Linux will be reliable if I
>delete and remake partitions to different format within partitions? Ex.
>
>hda1: W95 FAT32 (Win98) 2G
>hda2: Win95 Ext. LBA 6G
>hda5: FAT32 2G
>hda6: /boot 24M
>hda7: FAT16 (Share files between Win98 and Linux) 1.9G
>hda8: Linux Swap 125M
>hda9: Linux root 2G
>
>I wanted to decrease size in hda5 from 2G to 1.9G FAT32and add 100M
>FAT16 and delete hda7 FAT16 and convert it into Linux native. Ex.
>
>hda1: W95 FAT32 (Win98) 2G
>hda2: Win95 Ext. LBA 6G
>hda5: FAT32 1.9G
>hda6: FAT16 (Share files between Win98 and Linux) 100M
>hda7: /boot 24M
>hda8: Linux native 1.9G
>hda9: Linux Swap 125M
>hda10: Linux root 2G
>
>Is that possible without compromising the stability of the system? Or
>do I have to remove all the latter partitions starting from the point I
>wish to delete? I have done that about half year ago using MS Fdisk
>with Fat32 enabled and deleting partitions between partitions and it
>corrupted the partitions and the MS fdisk program itself and had to
>delete all the latter partitions so the MS fdisk program will read right
>and restart the program again and do it over again. I prefer the way
>Linux partitions store files because MS Windows does not support
>multiple dots in the file name such as XXXXX.XXX.XXX.XXX but only
>XXXXXXXX.XXX or XXXXXX~1.XXX. When I store Linux files in Windows
>partitions it convert XXXXX.XXX.XXX.XXX into XXXXX_XXX_XXX.XXX. I
>currently have too many files I wanted to keep but I have no way to back
>all those up since I only have floppies. No, I do not plan to use
>partition magic. I am very comfortable using old fashioned fdisk in
>Linux.
>
>CH
>
>
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