Re: Moving partition to an overlapping position

[Andrew Clausen]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 11:40:08AM +0200, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> > In the case of the FAT resizer, it is possible to have both the
> > old and new filesystems being valid simultaneously!  (Provided the
> > FATs, etc. don't overlap)
> 
> If you update block references then they can't cover both filesystems at
> the same time. Consequently they can't be valid simultaneously. 

The FAT resizer doesn't update block references.

> However if you rewrite everything on the free space then it should be ok,
> unless the kernel, the disk or its controller still cached reordered data
> when the power loss happened, after user exited Parted.

The old filesystem will be still in tact if you never changed it!

Cheers,
Andrew