From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 25 20:32:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aniwa.sky (aniwa.actrix.gen.nz [203.96.56.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADB7E14F9B for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 20:32:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@squiz.co.nz) Received: from aniwa.sky (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aniwa.sky (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA19429 for ; Wed, 26 May 1999 15:31:47 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199905260331.PAA19429@aniwa.sky> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: reformatting part of a drive Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 15:31:47 +1200 From: Andrew McNaughton Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is urgent. If anyone can answer this quickly it would make a big difference to me. I have a 10.2GB drive which I've partitioned, and put some important data in the last partition. I'm now ready to set up the system which I intended to reside in the second partition, and I've realised there is a problem. I have made the first partition, more than 1024 cylinders long, so it seems I will need to re-arrange things in order to boot from the second partition. Can I do this safely without risking the data stored on the last partition? Is it just a case of makeing sure that the partition editor indicates the same offset and size for the partition when I set up the new layout? Andrew McNaughton -- ----------- Andrew McNaughton andrew@squiz.co.nz http://www.newsroom.co.nz/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message