CLI wins where PartitionMagic and QTparted failed

[C M Reinehr]

On Wednesday 17 January 2007 14:28, C M Reinehr wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 January 2007 13:55, Bob Hemus wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 11:46 -0600, C M Reinehr wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 17 January 2007 11:20, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > You've really got to admire someone brave enough to edit their
> > > partition table manually! ;-)
> > >
> > > cmr
> >
> > Am I kinda dumb, is there another way?  Or do you mean let it do it in
> > one partition plus swap?
> > Bob
>
> Using fdisk, cfdisk, etc. allows you to indicate your desired partitions,
> but the program does the actual block counting and writing. Using sfdisk in
> the manner described allows you to manually edit the block numbers and and
> partition types yourself. For example, on my system the output of
> sfdisk -d /dev/sda > sda.out is:
>
> # partition table of /dev/sda
> unit: sectors
>
> /dev/sda1 : start=       63, size=   979902, Id=fd
> /dev/sda2 : start=   979965, size=292061700, Id=fd
> /dev/sda3 : start=        0, size=        0, Id= 0
> /dev/sda4 : start=        0, size=        0, Id= 0
>
> Matthew then edited this text file to suit his needs and reversed the
> process:
>
> sfdisk < sda.out

	Sorry, that should have been sfdisk /dev/sda < sda.out

> You don't want to miscount or you will clobber your file system.
>
> Cheers!
>
> cmr

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