[5545] in RedHat Linux List
partition magic for Linux (I wish!!)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Porter)
Fri Nov 22 01:25:11 1996
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 01:23:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Thomas Porter <txporter@mindspring.com>
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I am using a secondary 750 MB IDE drive as my Linux system, with DOS and
one Linux partition on my primary 1.6 GB IDE drive.
The cfdisk map of the 750 MB drive looks like this:
Partition Table for /dev/hdb
First Last
# Type Sector Sector Offset Length Filesystem Type (ID) Flags
-- ------- -------- -------- ------- -------- --------------------- ---------
1 Primary 0 133055 63 133056 DOS 16-bit >=32M (06) None (00)
2 Primary 133056 1266047 0 1132992 Extended (05) None (00)
5 Logical 133056 193535 63 60480 Linux (83) Boot (80)
6 Logical 193536 241919 63 48384 Linux Swap (82) None (00)
7 Logical 241920 856799 63 614880 Linux (83) None (00)
8 Logical 856800 1266047 63 409248 Linux (83) None (00)
Pri/Log 1266048 1425311 0 159264 Free Space None (00)
My boot (/) is logical 5 followed by my swap, etc. Note the free space at
the end. Unfortunately my / is about 80 % utilized, and logs fill up the
rest real fast. Lots going into /tmp can fill it up as well.
Is it possible to:
a. move my boot directory to the free space at the end of the drive, if I
create a Linux bootable partition there. Its probably past the 500 MG point.
b. assuming I move my swap to the end of the drive, can I extend the boot
partition some how after I delete the swap at logical 6?
I am hoping against hope that I wouldn't have to tar everything up, create
a rescue disk set, rub my system out, and hope I can restore from it. I
know I ought to do this as an exercise, but I'm a little scared to try!!
Thanks
Tom Porter
txporter@mindspring.com
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