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 1SlxmP-0005a8-02 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 07:44:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D19A1E05FE; Tue, 3 Jul 2012 07:43:58 +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 066A7E0504 for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2012 07:42:28 +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-1.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.5.186]) 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 <0M6K0046JQQS3K60@mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:42:28 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.77,514,1336341600"; d="scan'208";a="183226868" Received: from relay-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO relay.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.7.75]) by mx-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:42:28 +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 q637gSik014453 for ; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:42:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: from numa-i (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DDBA2155 for ; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:42:28 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:42:28 +0200 From: Helmut Jarausch Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is it safe to change the start of the first partition? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <1341299344.3112.1@numa-i> <4FF29E60.3090205@fu-berlin.de> In-reply-to: <4FF29E60.3090205@fu-berlin.de> X-Mailer: Balsa 2.4.90-55-g9c06336 Message-id: <1341301348.3112.2@numa-i> X-Archives-Salt: 5190aeb6-6c86-47a5-bbe1-460b76133843 X-Archives-Hash: 4892bb1492fcd47bf5c0a5fc7eebc33f On 07/03/2012 09:25:20 AM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03.07.2012 09:09, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > 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. > > > > Do you want to resize the partition or do you want to delete and > recreate it? > > The second option is no problem, the first could lead to some data > loss (if you are unlucky). I'd like to delete and recreate ONLY the first partition (which is small). The question is, can I keep the other partitions. As far as I remember, I once deleted the extended partition and tried to recreate logical partitions "at the same place". But that didn't work. Helmut.