From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1SlxGM-0003uq-Ui for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 07:11:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B1043E055E; Tue, 3 Jul 2012 07:10:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (mta-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.7.73]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41255E0330 for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2012 07:09:06 +0000 (UTC) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Received: from mx-out-2.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.5.187]) by mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008)) with ESMTP id <0M6K00474P753150@mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:09:05 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.77,514,1336341600"; d="scan'208";a="95129643" Received: from relay-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO relay.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.7.75]) by mx-2.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:09:05 +0200 Received: from numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.161.252]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.14.4+Sun/8.13.8/1) with ESMTP id q637956k005602 for ; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:09:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from numa-i (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 087792156 for ; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:09:05 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:09:04 +0200 From: Helmut Jarausch Subject: [gentoo-user] Is it safe to change the start of the first partition? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Balsa 2.4.90-55-g9c06336 Message-id: <1341299344.3112.1@numa-i> X-Archives-Salt: a6211f4b-1797-41e4-b8c7-271f3c77c780 X-Archives-Hash: d3f49dd97aa2d348f2a80bb5e31bc7ee Hi, modern fdisk puts the first partition at block 63 while older version have put it at block 1. Now, I'm going to upgrade an older system. Is it safe to repartition it by letting the first partition start 63 and shortening the first partition by 62 blocks? (I will loose the first partition which doesn't matter in my case.) Many thanks for sharing your experience, Helmut.