Re: [user] How to get this parted output?

2012-03-08 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 11:10:22 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: >gparted will resize/move NTFS volumes. That's the part I think you've missed, >is that you just changed the partition size, without resizing the file system. Thanks for the tip. I thought Clonezilla would take care of this, since it include

Re: [user] How to get this parted output?

2012-03-08 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 8, 2012, at 8:40 AM, Gilles wrote: > On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:30:56 +0100, Jim Meyering > wrote: >> You want to preserve contents of /dev/sda2? >> What were you trying to change? Just the starting sector of sda1? > > I needed to recreate /dev/sda1 exactly as it was before, as unlike > Lin

Re: [user] How to get this parted output?

2012-03-08 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:30:56 +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: >You want to preserve contents of /dev/sda2? >What were you trying to change? Just the starting sector of sda1? I needed to recreate /dev/sda1 exactly as it was before, as unlike Linux, Windows7 doesn't seem to like it when we restore an im

Re: [user] How to get this parted output?

2012-03-08 Thread Jim Meyering
Gilles wrote: > On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:31:24 +0100, Gilles > wrote: > >>On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:15:46 +0100, Jim Meyering >>wrote: >>>Then you want two primary partitions, and you already know >>>their types and starting and ending sector numbers, so do this: >>> >>>parted -s $dev mkpart prim

Re: [user] How to get this parted output?

2012-03-08 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:31:24 +0100, Gilles wrote: >On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:15:46 +0100, Jim Meyering >wrote: >>Then you want two primary partitions, and you already know >>their types and starting and ending sector numbers, so do this: >> >>parted -s $dev mkpart primary ntfs 63s 29302559s >>

Re: [user] How to get this parted output?

2012-03-08 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:15:46 +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: >Then you want two primary partitions, and you already know >their types and starting and ending sector numbers, so do this: > >parted -s $dev mkpart primary ntfs 63s 29302559s >parted -s $dev mkpart primary ext3 547013250s 625137344s

Re: [user] How to get this parted output?

2012-03-08 Thread Jim Meyering
Gilles wrote: > (This is not a bug, but rather a user question. I had to subscribe to > the bug@ mailing-list as there doesn't seem to be a user@ list that > would have been more appropriate.) This list is a fine place for questions. > After playing with a test host, I need to recreate /dev/sda1

[user] How to get this parted output?

2012-03-08 Thread Gilles
Hello (This is not a bug, but rather a user question. I had to subscribe to the bug@ mailing-list as there doesn't seem to be a user@ list that would have been more appropriate.) After playing with a test host, I need to recreate /dev/sda1 exactly as it was before parted (2.3 on Ubuntu) was ran t