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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PtqMF-0001mD-Ub for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:49:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1E4EB1C016; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:47:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D81E71C016 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:47:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF329DEC20 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:47:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ltumwkCP3XFx for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:47:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACA2FDEC16 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:47:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dual Boot Partitions Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:47:31 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <4D6A6756.9050603@optonline.net> In-Reply-To: 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-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201102272347.31709.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 272b96d820b5129e529eedbed187bb7e 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