Re: Change the root partition

[Bret Hughes <bhughes elevating com>]

On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 07:19, Molnar Peter wrote:
> > if your ADDING a partition which will change the existing partition
> > numbering scheme, just add it, re-configure the boot loader to point
> > to the new partition and your done.
> This is what I am asking about, how to do it.
> 
> To be exact, I have an 80G disk partitioned like so: hda1 70G vfat, 
> hda4 extended partition: hda5 9.6G ext3, hda6 400M swap.
> Now I successfully shrunk hda1 to 65G, resized the extended partition to
> the maximum size (now around 15 G), and I want to create another Linux
> partition, but I dont know what I have to do, when the number of the
> root partition changes.
> 
> That is why I tried to move the free space from the beginning of the
> extended partition to the end of at least the ext3 partition, so the
> number doesnt change in the case of the root partition of my system.
> 

What boot loader?  Grub or lilo?



Bret