On 25 May 2010 13:34, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berke...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 13:06 +0100, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> > wrote: >> On 25 May 2010 12:29, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berke...@googlemail.com> >> wrote: >> > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 12:00 +0100, Colin Law >> <clan...@googlemail.com> >> > wrote: >> >> 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 >> > But that wouldn't work with the swap partition, would it? I can't >> > just unmount that, move it down the disk, and mount it again? >> It won't be mounted, when you boot off the live CD nothing on your >> hard disk will be mounted. It will not be using the swap there. You >> can boot off the live CD with no disk at all, or even one with Windows >> on it! Colin > Quite so, but I meant, not using a Live CD, just working from the > computer's own resident OS, which is all in sda1, the boot volume. My > idea was that while, necessarily, leaving that volume mounted, I can > unmount and delete, recreate -- or, as I thought you were suggesting, > move -- the other volumes without any difficulties. > > It does occur to me though that if I were to rename the new partitions, > there might be files other than fstab and resume that would need > altering accordingly. There might be other files that assume that the > swap partition is sda3, and that the Home folder is in sda5, and would > not be able to find them. So I would need a complete list of files that > point to either the partition names or the UUIDs of the swap partition, > and the Home folder, and its menu contents such as Documents, Music, > Pictures, Video, etc.
I can't understand why you don't want to use the live CD. Then none of this is a problem. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
