Re: Moving the Beginning of a Partition

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Thanks Matt,

I was hoping to hear of a Tool under the RedHat experience which was
available.  I do have Partition Magic, and I'll pull that out of my tool
kit.  LVM is another exceptional choice as well.

I appreciate the reply.

Matt Wilson wrote:

> None of the existing Open Source ext2/ext3 manipulation tools can move
> the start of a partition.  I don't know if partition magic or
> something similar could do it.  Using LVM solves much of the problem,
> since you can move the LVM around and the filesystem will never know
> that the start has moved (due to the logical addressing).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matt
>
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 02:51:21PM -0400, Albert E. Whale wrote:
> >
> > Can I Change the starting location?  Do I need to delete the Existing
> > Partition and recreate it?  If I delete #4 will 5-8 go away as well (if
> > so, can I simply re-add them back without losing data?)?
> >
> > Any assistance is appreciated.
>
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