At 02:45 AM 10/14/2002 -0400, you wrote: >Stephen Liu wrote:> > > >Kindly advise > >1) How to display the existing partition in full detail > >2) What command shall issue to "defragment" the hard disc on Linux > >3) What shall be the safe and easy way to re-partition a hard disc > >er.. can't really defragment a hard disk in Linux, it isn't as messy as >other operating systems;) so there is no real need. The file structure >will probably have spanned the whole disk tho, so you're better off just >backing up, repartition with fdisk (man fdisk), and restore from backup... > >Good luck... > >M. Stephen Liu wrote:> >Can I resize each partition and add new partition as well, without >repartition the whole drive and restore from backup. Which process will be >easier What is the current status of the said disk? ie has it only the 1 single partition, or more than 1 partition. If it has 1 partition only you will need to backup on to another drive. If it has more than one partition and you want to repartition a partition on the drive you need to check if you have enough space on a different partition to do a backup, if you have that's cool, Life will be made a little easier, if not, again backup to another drive. Fdisk will only mess with the partition you specify, the other partitions and the data contained on them are safe. BTW what are you trying to achieve from the repartitioning? M.
