On 25 May 2010 10:22, Alan Pope <a...@popey.com> wrote: > On 25 May 2010 10:02, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berke...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> ha, well, if there's no risk of imminent fatality, I shall do it at some >> point. But why would I want to 'boot from a live Ubuntu CD'? > > Because the operation I described requires you to be changing data on > partitions that cannot be mounted whilst you do it. Booting to the > live CD means that the hard disk is not mounted, not in use as you > move partitions around. > >> I have an >> up-to-date Karmic Koala installation, with the desktop and panels >> adapted to my peculiar tastes, and the only CDs I have are for Intrepid >> Ibex. I can't see any need to destroy everything I have installed. > > At no point did I suggest reinstallation or 'destroying' anything. I'm > merely describing the process of _moving_ partitions around on the > disk, and expanding partitions to allow them to use the newly > available space made by deleting an unused partition. >
Just to clarify to the OP, when a partition is moved using gparted the data in the partition is moved with it, so this can be done without affecting an existing system. It is always wise to ensure backups are up to date before embarking on this sort of operation however. One never knows when one is going to hit the wrong key or click the wrong partition. Also I imagine that granny tripping over the power lead in the middle of moving a partition might be unfortunate for the data integrity as well as granny. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
