Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dual Boot Partitions

["Elaine C. Sharpe" <elaine@southernstarsolutions.com>]

In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
> 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

I love systemrescuecd, it's saved my butt many times. Customizing it for 
my own use was my introduction to gentoo. 

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