Hi Muhammad At 03:16 AM 10/14/2002 -0400, you wrote: > - snip - > >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. The hard drive has 3 partitions with sufficient free space for resizing and adding new partitions. I will use CD-Writer to backup. One addition question on 1 (one) partition case, if I backup the entire hard drive, after partitioning the drive how to restore the files to their respective partition. >Fdisk will only mess with the partition you specify, the other partitions and >the data contained on them are safe. Noted with thanks >BTW what are you trying to achieve from the repartitioning? Sorry I don't catch this point. Could you please give more detail. Thanks in advance. Stephen -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list