Reparbreastioning a hard disk without loosing data, how 2459

Stegozor

No. My above statement still holds...

Don't worry we've all been there :-)

Yes.

Not sure what you mean by 'mix'?

Close ;-) Once you've got the free space fromdev-hda1 you'll need to create an extended parbreastion with three logical parbreastions forhome, swap and freedos. They will be calleddev-hda5,dev-hda6 anddev-hda7 - they won't be 'in'.

Indeed you do! TBH I've done this myself before with no problems, but be warned there is a very real risk of losing *all* your data. In the above scheme youcouldleavehome where it is and move the data over after you've created a new, largerhome, but this won't be any safer :-( and you'll be left with a spare 2Gb parbreastion (freedos maybe?). Actually thinking about it, that's a bad idea as you won't be able to make the best use of the free space - just movehome to and delete thehome, swap and freedos parbreastions and recreate them as extended ones.

Sure. There are floppy or pendrive distros of linux which will have parbreastion editing tools, but they will be all commandline driven no fancy guis - Damn Small Linux is an exception.

It doesn't have to be an Ubuntu CD most, if not all, the live distros have a gui parbreastion manager. Sytemrescuecd is also a good option.

cp -ahome-*target

or

rsync -avzhome-target

should do it. This is only for fixed disks, for CD-DVD backup you need different tools.

Yes and broadband ;-) I only recently took the plunge and I certainly wouldn't go back to dial-up!