From: sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) Subject: Re: partitioning, another question Date: 1 May 1993 22:01:02 GMT
In article <C697qx.K6D@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, goyle@tortie.me.uiuc.edu (Vipin Goyle) writes:
> yesterday i finally partitioned my hard drive and created a primary
> dos partition and an extended partition. the extended partition now
> has about 110M space. when trying to install linux and crate the
> partition i realized i had to make a swap partition too! does this
> mean i'll have to recreate everything? can i just make an extended
> partition from linux's fdisk with /dev/hda2 and then use the
> doinstall /dev/hda2 /dev/hda3 /swap ? i guess the main thing i'm
> trying to ask is that will i have to recrate the DOS partition or
> can i just continue and the fdiak sohouldn't corrupt the DOS
> partition?
You should be in luck!
"fdisk" *only* changes the drive's partition table(s). You can quite
happily use fdisk to reshuffle around your partitions without changing
any of the other data on your disk. So, as long as you leave the
partition table entry for your dos partition alone, you won't have to
reinstall it.
Cheers,
Stephen Tweedie.