On 27 Aug 2001 18:54:36 -0400, dman wrote: > 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!)
Not quite. It seems that the famed grub command prompt can't handle a shifted partition. Remember how grub freaks like to brag about the bootloader's ability to arbitrarily load kernels (the reason I shifted to grub when I first began experimenting with Debian)? Well, I had to reinstall grub after repartitioning. Both menu and command prompt were MIA. It seems that grub was looking for data in a renumbered partition. Originally I had installed from hda16 (hda14 after the lobotomy). The problem wasn't too much of a brainer. I just had to dig through my CDR filer for the all-too-important rescue disk. Maybe there's an even easier way, say, a secret keyboard combination --. Otherwise this is my note for the unwary.
