On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, charles kaufman wrote: > > Hi > > Not necessary. Recently i repartitioned my HD, moved Linux from hda2 to > > hda1. Never had any trouble after i restored my filesystem from backups > > and reran lilo (after editing lilo.conf and fstab) > > I did almost that. Instead of restoring from backups I had the old and > the new hard drives mounted at the same time and used cpio. > Did you have to tell the kernel where the new swap partition was?
i had two hard drives, but the one i was repartitioning had the entire Linux installation on it at the time. So i tar-gzipped everything to the other drive (which fortunately had the space), popped in my old hamm installation floppy, repartitioned, used zcat and star off the floppy--fortunately i had tarred / into a separate tarball from /usr and other unessential stuff, because that tarball was the only one star managed to handle! i then resolved to make a new boot disk for myself one of these days ;) Didn't have to tell the kernel that either... i used the "initialize swap partition" option on the installation floppy when i was repartitioning, then just changed fstab.
