[gentoo-user] Re: how to move windows partition to be begining of hard?

[gentoo-user] Re: how to move windows partition to be begining of hard?

[Platoali]

On Shanbe 19 Khordad 1386 14:25, Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 June 2007 13:05, Randy Barlow wrote:
> > gpgkeys: key ED2A35C5A17F791F not found on keyserver
> >
> > Platoali wrote:
> > > I  have a box that has a 4GB fat32 partition in the middle of hard.
> > > I want to move this partition to the end or  begining of hard, so I can
> > > create bigger partitions.
> > >
> > > How can I do this without losing the data in this partition? I know
> > > that softwares like "Partition magick" can do this without any problem.
> > >  Is there any opensource competitor in linux world?
> >
> > Have a look at qtparted.  I haven't personally used it for such a task,
> > but I think it may be capable of something like that.  It's available on
> > the Knoppix CD by default, which is good if you need to have root
> > unmounted...
>
> Not sure if the OP has already hosed his data.  The *parted tools can shift
> the start and, or end of a partition, but they do not move data.  I have
> hosed partitions in the part using gparted because I shifted the beginning
> of the partition (and thus overwritten the partition boot sector).  My
> advice is to use partition image or Norton Ghost to create an image of the
> data in your partition.  Then, use fdisk to delete old partitions, create
> new and mkfs <type> to format these.  Finally, use partimage again to dump
> the imaged data into a partition of your choice.
>
> Good luck.

Thank you very much all you peaple for your recomandations. I acctually solved 
my problem by dd.  I just create a new partition  in the begining of my hard 
and then copy  the old one. I did not need any other partitions data because 
I would format them all for the new gentoo system. Its amazing how small 
programs such as dd can solve problems like this.

Best regards
Platoali
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[gentoo-user] how to move windows partition to be begining of hard?

[Platoali]

Hi 

I  have a box that has a 4GB fat32 partition in the middle of hard.
I want to move this partition to the end or  begining of hard, so I can create  
bigger partitions.

How can I do this without losing the data in this partition? I know that 
softwares like "Partition magick" can do this without any problem.  Is there  
any opensource competitor in linux world?

Thank you very much for you answeres
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Re: [gentoo-user] how to move windows partition to be begining of hard?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 05 June 2007, Platoali wrote:
> Hi
>
> I  have a box that has a 4GB fat32 partition in the middle of hard.
> I want to move this partition to the end or  begining of hard, so I
> can create bigger partitions.
>
> How can I do this without losing the data in this partition? I know
> that softwares like "Partition magick" can do this without any
> problem.  Is there any opensource competitor in linux world?

I don;t know of any apps that can automagically perform this function - 
I always do it manually, but it requires some unpartitioned space, or 
free space on the file systems.

What is the output of these command on your system:

fdisk -l
df -h
cat /etc/fstab

alan



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Re: [gentoo-user] how to move windows partition to be begining of hard?

[Galevsky]

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Ya there is. Have a look at GParted, and burn this useful live-cd.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/index.php

Gal

2007/6/5, Platoali <platoali@gmail.com>:
>
> Hi
>
> I  have a box that has a 4GB fat32 partition in the middle of hard.
> I want to move this partition to the end or  begining of hard, so I can
> create
> bigger partitions.
>
> How can I do this without losing the data in this partition? I know that
> softwares like "Partition magick" can do this without any problem.  Is
> there
> any opensource competitor in linux world?
>
> Thank you very much for you answeres
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> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] how to move windows partition to be begining of hard?

[Randy Barlow]

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Platoali wrote:
> I  have a box that has a 4GB fat32 partition in the middle of hard.
> I want to move this partition to the end or  begining of hard, so I can create  
> bigger partitions.
> 
> How can I do this without losing the data in this partition? I know that 
> softwares like "Partition magick" can do this without any problem.  Is there  
> any opensource competitor in linux world?

Have a look at qtparted.  I haven't personally used it for such a task,
but I think it may be capable of something like that.  It's available on
the Knoppix CD by default, which is good if you need to have root
unmounted...

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[gentoo-user] Re: how to move windows partition to be begining of hard?

[Platoali]

Thank you very much.


On Se shanbe 15 Khordad 1386 15:33, Galevsky wrote:
> Ya there is. Have a look at GParted, and burn this useful live-cd.
>
> http://gparted.sourceforge.net/index.php
>
> Gal
>
> 2007/6/5, Platoali <platoali@gmail.com>:
> > Hi
> >
> > I  have a box that has a 4GB fat32 partition in the middle of hard.
> > I want to move this partition to the end or  begining of hard, so I can
> > create
> > bigger partitions.
> >
> > How can I do this without losing the data in this partition? I know that
> > softwares like "Partition magick" can do this without any problem.  Is
> > there
> > any opensource competitor in linux world?
> >
> > Thank you very much for you answeres
> > --
> > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
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Re: [gentoo-user] how to move windows partition to be begining of hard?

[Mick]

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On Tuesday 05 June 2007 13:05, Randy Barlow wrote:
> gpgkeys: key ED2A35C5A17F791F not found on keyserver
>
> Platoali wrote:
> > I  have a box that has a 4GB fat32 partition in the middle of hard.
> > I want to move this partition to the end or  begining of hard, so I can
> > create bigger partitions.
> >
> > How can I do this without losing the data in this partition? I know that
> > softwares like "Partition magick" can do this without any problem.  Is
> > there any opensource competitor in linux world?
>
> Have a look at qtparted.  I haven't personally used it for such a task,
> but I think it may be capable of something like that.  It's available on
> the Knoppix CD by default, which is good if you need to have root
> unmounted...

Not sure if the OP has already hosed his data.  The *parted tools can shift 
the start and, or end of a partition, but they do not move data.  I have 
hosed partitions in the part using gparted because I shifted the beginning of 
the partition (and thus overwritten the partition boot sector).  My advice is 
to use partition image or Norton Ghost to create an image of the data in your 
partition.  Then, use fdisk to delete old partitions, create new and mkfs 
<type> to format these.  Finally, use partimage again to dump the imaged data 
into a partition of your choice.

Good luck.
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Regards,
Mick

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