Re: new to parted

2007-01-17 Thread leslie . polzer
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 07:12:35PM -0800, VomLehn, David wrote: > Hmm. It would be good to know what the partition table mathematics > parted uses actually are. There's more than one part involved in this. We have the constraint solver, providing the basic mathematical framework, which is used by

RE: new to parted

2007-01-16 Thread VomLehn, David
08-777-5052 fax: 408-777-0176 > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 11:51 AM > To: François Patte > Cc: bug-parted@gnu.org > Subject: Re: new to parted > >

Re: new to parted

2007-01-14 Thread leslie . polzer
Dear François, On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 07:29:08PM +0100, François Patte wrote: > Why 8 ends at 15304,108 and 9 begins at 15304,140? 0,031 is missing! Parted automatically aligns partitions based on what it thinks is best (or, rather, necessary). The mathematics of partition tables are sometimes

new to parted

2007-01-12 Thread François Patte
Bonjour, Hope this list is the good place to post my newby question! I want to upgrade my laptop from FC4 to FC6 and I want to "reshape" my partition table. I created a /backup partition which I do not use and I want to merge it with /home *and* I want to resize /usr /dev/sda8 ---> /us