On Monday 22 May 2006 21:24, Digby Tarvin wrote: > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 07:08:43PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > > On Monday 22 May 2006 17:32, Digby Tarvin wrote: > > > The first entry in the table might be your Linux root, but the first > > > partition on the drive is your FAT. So if you want your partition table > > > to be in disk order, you either have to change the partition table to > > > match what you actually have, or you have to physically move the data > > > on the disk. For the latter, you are basically back to doing a beckup, > > > repartition, reformat and then restore > > > > Actually, fixing the order in fdisk will exchange what is now /dev/hdc1 > > (linux) and /dev/hdc2 (extended). Everything else remains in place. > > Not sure how you reach that conclusion. Your current /dev/hdc1 starts > at cylinder 65520, so it actually the 7th partition on the disk. > No conclusion. Ran fdisk, went to advanced menu and chose "fix partition table order". The "print" of this shows what I described. The reason would be: hdc1 is now an EXTENDED partion. hdc2 linux ext3 is a primary partion hdc3 swap is also. All the logical partitions (within hdc1) follow.
> If you swap hdc1 and hdc2, then the logical partition names will indeed > stay the same, but your partition table is still out of sequence, and > I know I have come across software that does not allow the extended > partition to be anything other than the last allocated primary partition. > > > Could I assume that lilo could just as happily boot to /dev/hdc2 as it > > does now to /dev/hdc1 ? > > I believe that both lilo and grub are capable of booting from any primary > or logical partition. But you main need you may need to be able to boot > from a rescue disk to re-install your boot blocks. > > > IF so, how safe is this change to actually save, change lilo.conf and > > reboot? > > I would make sure that you have a bootable rescue floppy or CD just > in case you need to re-install lilo after the partition name changes > have taken effect. It is quite a while since I last used lilo, so I > don't recall how much is needed. Knoppix is around just for such things. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
