On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 06:48:50AM +0800, csj wrote: | I'm planning to repartition part of my HD. Previously, I only | partitioned the whole drive as part of a Linux reinstallation. So I'm | somewhat clueless about partitions and partitioning. The tool I'm most | comfortable with is cfdisk. So replies which take into account this tool | are most appreciated. | | My question: Suppose I have hda5 to hda22. I want to delete hda5, hda6 | and hda7 and create a new partition from the empty space. | | What would happen to my current hda8, hda9, etc.? Would hda8 be renamed | to hda6 (hda9 to hda7)? More importantly, can I delete a lower numbered | partition (hda6) without affecting the contents of higher numbered | partitions (=> hda8)?
If you don't touch the higher numbered partitions, then they won't be affected other than (potentially) getting renamed/renumbered by the OS. I believe that the parttions will be renumbered, but that will only affect your /etc/fstab, nothing else. (Unlike some other OSes I know of!) HTH, -D
