With parted, how do I move the start of a partition back to fill unallocated space? I realize that I got a mistake, with partitions 1 and 3, and unallocated space between. I want to move the beginning of 3 to fill where 2 was taken out. At 08:24 AM 12/5/01 -0500, you wrote: >OK, I understand this better now. I don't know Debian particularly. Most >of my experience is with Redhat, where the initial boot disk doesn't >matter as much, as long as you have the more up to date CD ROMs or ISO >images. I certainly do understand about wanting to minimize the work >involved. > >Because the best laid plans can so oft go astray, I suspect it's still >wise to back up critical files to the extent you can. This should include >the things that are not easily replaced--yhour data files from /home, >anything you've spent time configuring and tweaking in /etc, certainly >your mail spool file in /var/spool/mail. If you have the full Debian >install and the space to put that on your current hd, you might want to >consider rsync to bring it up to date and then burning a new set of CD >ROMS before undergoing to hardware work. If that's a reasonable >possibility, it could prove worth it. > >My most recent experience with something like this came last spring. I set >out to drop a new slave hard drive into my office computer. Something went >wrong and my old hard unexpectedly came up dead. I had no choice but to >reinstall from scratch. For the first time in my life, after just a brief >moment of panic, I realized that I was really OK because everything >important was backed up. Today, the knowledge that my critical data is >backed up gives me the confidence to play around with parted which is new >to me. As with most things new, mistakes come along with the successes. >But, it's no hardship because of the backups. > > On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > >> On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Janina Sajka wrote: >> >> simply install then move the data, including appropriate /etc >> > configurations, back over. Certainly seems more secure and less >> > experimental to me. >> I would say you are basically right, only how far would I have to go with >> the install? What I don't like is that I have to use speakup disk that are >> an older version than my present system, and I don't want to install the >> old kernel and base system etc. If I can just use the debian rescue and >> root disk to create my partitions and initialize them I don't have >> aproblem, but I'm trying to avoid having to use ppp at all and having to >> do a massive upgrade after I install. >> >> Cheryl >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Blinux-list@redhat.com >> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >> > >-- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > >Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > >Chair, Accessibility SIG >Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) >http://www.openebook.org > >Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, >Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp > >Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther >King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at >http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp > >Learn how to make accessible software at >http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Blinux-list@redhat.com >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > >