From: Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dual Boot Partitions
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:47:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201102272347.31709.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ike92u$l1o$1@dough.gmane.org>
On Sunday 27 February 2011 19:35:55 walt wrote:
> I've used this product several times with perfect results (so far):
>
> http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
>
> Of course if you already have a working linux machine you can install
> gparted and use it that way to move, resize and create partitions.
> Very easy and almost painless.
Gparted is indeed pretty; I use it often to get a picture of the partition
layout (I boot from System Rescue CD: http://www.sysresccd.org/). However,
it leaves partitions in the wrong order if you insert one before another.
Fdisk is ideal for fixing that:
$ fdisk /dev/sda
x
f
w
Job done.
--
Rgds
Peter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-27 23:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-27 15:01 [gentoo-user] Dual Boot Partitions dhk
2011-02-27 16:02 ` Petri Rosenström
2011-02-27 18:04 ` Florian Philipp
2011-02-27 19:39 ` Mick
2011-02-28 11:26 ` dhk
2011-02-28 11:39 ` Mick
2011-02-28 12:25 ` dhk
2011-02-28 13:11 ` dhk
2011-02-28 13:25 ` Mick
2011-03-02 13:49 ` dhk
2011-02-28 13:19 ` Mick
2011-02-27 19:35 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2011-02-27 23:47 ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2011-03-06 6:57 ` [gentoo-user] Re: MS Windows-scanners [Was: Boot Partitions] Joost Roeleveld
2011-03-06 14:14 ` Sebastian Beßler
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2011-03-01 14:43 ` [gentoo-user] Re: Dual Boot Partitions Elaine C. Sharpe
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