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 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1SlxVx-0000ks-Fx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 07:27:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D20BDE0655; Tue, 3 Jul 2012 07:26:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de [130.133.4.66]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E16EE060F for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2012 07:25:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.69]) by outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.69) for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org with esmtp (envelope-from ) id <1SlxUA-0005iN-Ph>; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:25:22 +0200 Received: from imp051235.vpn.mi.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.51.235]) by inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.69) for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org with esmtpsa (envelope-from ) id <1SlxUA-0002un-MK>; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:25:22 +0200 Message-ID: <4FF29E60.3090205@fu-berlin.de> Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:25:20 +0200 From: Hinnerk van Bruinehsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120606 Thunderbird/13.0 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is it safe to change the start of the first partition? References: <1341299344.3112.1@numa-i> In-Reply-To: <1341299344.3112.1@numa-i> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5pre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: 130.133.51.235 X-Archives-Salt: 286925fb-7cf2-4e1a-8bf1-a82f8a05d9ba X-Archives-Hash: 4fc35d74e533cbaebe1cd38f90b665a3 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03.07.2012 09:09, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > modern fdisk puts the first partition at block 63 while older > version have put it at block 1. > > Now, I'm going to upgrade an older system. Is it safe to > repartition it by letting the first partition start 63 and > shortening the first partition by 62 blocks? > > (I will loose the first partition which doesn't matter in my > case.) > > Many thanks for sharing your experience, Helmut. > Do you want to resize the partition or do you want to delete and recreate it? The second option is no problem, the first could lead to some data loss (if you are unlucky). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJP8p5gAAoJEJwwOFaNFkYcoDAIAMNRsPzJq8ukcX8SYfpt2TAN y4UQ8l39zdJx+8WLTHwEAcjDIsYti0xOPzz38RteMCJ4lY6KSDlw7QdpQQv6wK4V EuNfpnUXrb+ty6Fk6X3mS5bUS6rDmTrxGFVeFJha2tklHR7oPNa8CVrULSccpZrG spLBUy8q/XxlkjB/dCn2zzfDFhOzAkqmuCxLgGoj7QDBfOBBsCE3HF3JqlkD3JFt OusMVlFHZf2RI1/1G/R1Hq5WQfQAKe2Y6cLLYvmHGx+gWFbyudIL7FQpsX+orCc0 arUGe5V2swt7NGN3DvjxLbLWubuPmqKfMS/iDNkYUZS3xso2EpVZzUXBU4sLwcc= =Of29 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----