On Monday, 17 December 2018 23:19:39 GMT Jack wrote: > At this point, I think I've forgotten the details, but using the > example of a 300G drive with 100G empty and then a 200G partition, when > I moved the partition to the beginning of the disk (using gparted, as I > remember) once it moved more than the first 100G of the partition, it > overwrote the beginning of the original partition, and once it > overwrote any of the directory structure it still needed to know where > stuff was, game over.
Gparted can handle that without difficulty - I do it often - so I think you must be mistaken in the tool you used. Sorry not to be more helpful... -- Regards, Peter.
