Re: disk drake

[Andrew Clausen]

On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 07:25:40AM +0200, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> 
> > ah, and i was thinking "in general". they could pay somebody to implement
> > the "move the start of an ext partition" function. maybe they have other
> > priorities...
> 
> Or just use LVM, no such problem. Also "move the start of an ext partition"
> can be done by shrink + dd + partition edition. No risk, everybody has
> backup ;)

Backup is very slow.  No-one has backup.

If you really want backup, use RAID, or a database with logging, etc.

If you really did do backups, then there would be no need for Parted.
(Other than the need for a maintainable fdisk)

Cheers,
Andrew