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 1PuQpT-0004FF-B8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:45:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 198A3E0467; Tue, 1 Mar 2011 14:43:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFCCFE0467 for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2011 14:43:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywl2 with SMTP id 2so2827535ywl.40 for ; Tue, 01 Mar 2011 06:43:54 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.91.189.12 with SMTP id r12mr9336234agp.136.1298990634038; Tue, 01 Mar 2011 06:43:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from satcidananda (adsl-152-87-140.asm.bellsouth.net [72.152.87.140]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 17sm453340anx.33.2011.03.01.06.43.52 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 01 Mar 2011 06:43:52 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 09:43:38 -0500 From: "Elaine C. Sharpe" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dual Boot Partitions Message-ID: <20110301144338.GA20277@satcidananda> References: 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=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 5f7cef8b2e11dbadc5a8e0643d5b2e4a 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): >>=20 >> http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php >>=20 >> 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 partit= ion=20 > layout (I boot from System Rescue CD: http://www.sysresccd.org/). Howev= er,=20 > it leaves partitions in the wrong order if you insert one before anothe= r.=20 > Fdisk is ideal for fixing that: > > $ fdisk /dev/sda > x > f > w > > Job done. > > --=20 > Rgds > Peter I love systemrescuecd, it's saved my butt many times. Customizing it for=20 my own use was my introduction to gentoo.=20 --=20 caveat utilitor=20 =E2=99=AB =E2=9D=A4 =E2=99=AB =E2=9D=A4 =E2=99=AB =E2=9D=A4 =E2=99=AB=20