Posted by: macemoneta
on October 13, 2003 10:45 PM
> deleting the partition wipes out all of your data
No, it doesn't. It only manipulates the partition table on the drive; it does not write to the data pointed to by any partition table entry.
Certainly, if you incorrectly re-add the partition entry, the partition will not be mountable. As long as the start is the same, and the end is equal to or greater than the previous end, you won't have a problem.
It should be obvious, but any partition after the one you are growing needs to be relocated. You can't have two partitions overlapping.
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Re: Man, is this badly written.
Posted by: macemoneta on October 13, 2003 10:45 PMNo, it doesn't. It only manipulates the partition table on the drive; it does not write to the data pointed to by any partition table entry.
Certainly, if you incorrectly re-add the partition entry, the partition will not be mountable. As long as the start is the same, and the end is equal to or greater than the previous end, you won't have a problem.
It should be obvious, but any partition after the one you are growing needs to be relocated. You can't have two partitions overlapping.
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