Re: Reboot after every change? Partboot and various questions

[Andrew Clausen]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 12:08:52AM -0800, Martin Delk wrote:
> I'm using parted-1.6.6, and have 3 questions.
> I have many changes to make to most of my ext2
> partitions, none being / or /boot.
> Should I reboot after every single partition change?

No.  In fact, (unless there is a bug in Parted!), you only need to reboot
if Parted tells you that you need to.

> For example, this what I call a singe partition
> change:
> resize 7 XXXX XXXX
> mkpartfs logical ext2 XXXX XXXX
> cp 8 10
> rm 8
> 
> Or, can I continue to resize more partitions during
> this session?

Yes.

> Second: If I've created a new partition using:
> mkpartfs logical ext2 XXXX XXXX,
> can I use the move command? I've read all through the
> info file, and still not sure when I can use the move
> command, as opposed to resize. I know I can use the
> resize to do everything, but will take many more
> steps.

Parted will complain if you try to do something it doesn't let you do.

"move" is supposed to be used when the old and new partitions won't
overlap.

"resize" is supposed to be used when the old and new partitions do
overlap.

I don't know why I split these up.  It seems stupid to have two
commands.  Sorry!

> Sorry about the length of this message.
> 
> Third: I've read the man page for partboot, but not
> sure how to use it. How is it supposed to be used?

You write the partboot image to a floppy disk (and a partroot image
to a second floppy disk), and then "boot" from them.  This usually
involves putting the disk in the computer, and turning it on.
You might need to go into your "BIOS setup/configuration" to do this,
though.

Cheers,
Andrew