Re: [gentoo-user] how to move windows partition to be begining of hard?

[Mick]

On Tuesday 05 June 2007 13:05, Randy Barlow wrote:
> gpgkeys: key ED2A35C5A17F791F not found on keyserver
>
> Platoali wrote:
> > I  have a box that has a 4GB fat32 partition in the middle of hard.
> > I want to move this partition to the end or  begining of hard, so I can
> > create bigger partitions.
> >
> > How can I do this without losing the data in this partition? I know that
> > softwares like "Partition magick" can do this without any problem.  Is
> > there any opensource competitor in linux world?
>
> Have a look at qtparted.  I haven't personally used it for such a task,
> but I think it may be capable of something like that.  It's available on
> the Knoppix CD by default, which is good if you need to have root
> unmounted...

Not sure if the OP has already hosed his data.  The *parted tools can shift 
the start and, or end of a partition, but they do not move data.  I have 
hosed partitions in the part using gparted because I shifted the beginning of 
the partition (and thus overwritten the partition boot sector).  My advice is 
to use partition image or Norton Ghost to create an image of the data in your 
partition.  Then, use fdisk to delete old partitions, create new and mkfs 
<type> to format these.  Finally, use partimage again to dump the imaged data 
into a partition of your choice.

Good luck.
-- 
Regards,
Mick