Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 22:44:51 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: Alexey Koptsevich <kopts@astro.washington.edu>, <mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: swapping partitions Message-ID: <01111322445100.00684@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111122214000.18292-100000@geographos.astro.washington.edu> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111122214000.18292-100000@geographos.astro.washington.edu>
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On Tuesday 13 November 2001 01:21, Alexey Koptsevich wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Now I have /dev/ad0s1 DOS partition and /dev/ad0s2 -- partition intended
> for suspend-to-disk. Since s2d does not work in this configuration I would
> like to try to move s2d partition first. Can I do it in the following way:
>
> dd if=/dev/ad0s1 of=/tmp/somefile
> swap two first partitions in sense of size
> dd if=/tmp/somefile of=/dev/ad0s2
>
> Will it work afterwards, or I have to make any additional changes?
You have a /tmp dir big enough to hold an entire slice?
Before trying any such operation I'd definately back up everything on the
disk.
You'd need to change /etc/fstab if you mount the MS-DOS partition. That's
about it if both partitions are the same type, since you aren't changing the
number of slices or any slices used directly by FreeBSD for anything. But I
din't think you'll like the results--Windows always tries to use C: for the
first physical partition it finds of the proper type, and always boots from
C:, so you won't be able to use Windows if you try such a thing, unless the
S2D parition has a different identifier, in which case you should be golden
but you'll need to change the IDs as well as the sizes. Personaly, I'd
recommend going into a Linux install to do this: the Linux fdisk command is
much nicer than either the Windows or FreeBSD version.
Better yet, buy Partition Magic.
Regardless, back up everything before you try this!
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
>
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