Reparbreastioning a hard disk without loosing data, how 2458

Chris

A little precision about my parbreastions: Parbreastion 1:dev-hda1 14.65 Gb (10 Gb free) Parbreastion 2:dev-hda2 home 2 Gb (1.08 Gb free) Parbreastion 3:dev-hda3 swap 1 Gb Parbreastion 4:dev-hda4 not yet formatted.

Does it change anything? (All primary parbreastions so as you tell below, I can't create another primary parbreastion).

Thanks for the advice. If only I knew that before having installed Ubuntu... A typical newbie mistake, I guess.

Oh sh*t, I had completely forgotten that.

Let me summarize: I delete swap and freedos parbreastions, then I resize, mix freed space from with previous swap and freedos creating an extended parbreastion. Once all this is done, I create logical parbreastions in for newhome, swap and freedos. That's it? Another point: As I can't backuphome on CD, I was thinking about copying it in . Is this reasonable or a stupid mistake?

Seems that I play a dangerous game :)

Hell, I gave the Ubuntu CD to a friend, and my CD drive is unable to write on discs, it's just a player. Isn't there something like Ranish Parbreastion manager for dos that can be run from a floppy?

Sure :) What was the right command for a backup? cp -drphome-*.*target-?

Frankly, it becomes hard to live without a burner these days...