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Re: Moving partition to an overlapping position
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Andrew Clausen |
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Re: Moving partition to an overlapping position |
Date: |
Wed, 20 Jul 2005 08:25:44 +1000 |
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On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 05:15:45PM +0300, Ville Herva wrote:
> (parted) move 2 32kB 110GB
>
> Error: Can't move a partition onto itself. Try using resize, perhaps?
>
> What I don't perfectly understand is why this is so hard to implement. Isn't
> this just a case of copying the 110GB in 10GB (or smaller) chunks towards
> the beginning of the disk? I'm probably missing something, right?
The implementation you suggest is dangerous. If, for example, there
were a blackout halfway during the process, you would lose your
data.
Cheers,
Andrew
- Moving partition to an overlapping position, Ville Herva, 2005/07/19
- Re: Moving partition to an overlapping position, leslie . polzer, 2005/07/19
- Re: Moving partition to an overlapping position,
Andrew Clausen <=
- Re: Moving partition to an overlapping position, Ville Herva, 2005/07/20
- Re: Moving partition to an overlapping position, K.G., 2005/07/20
- Re: Moving partition to an overlapping position, Szakacsits Szabolcs, 2005/07/20
- Re: Moving partition to an overlapping position, Ville Herva, 2005/07/20
- Re: Moving partition to an overlapping position, Andrew Clausen, 2005/07/20
- Re: Moving partition to an overlapping position, Szakacsits Szabolcs, 2005/07/20
- Re: Moving partition to an overlapping position, K.G., 2005/07/20
- Re: Moving partition to an overlapping position, Szakacsits Szabolcs, 2005/07/20
- Re: Moving partition to an overlapping position, K.G., 2005/07/20
- Re: Moving partition to an overlapping position, Szakacsits Szabolcs, 2005/07/20