[SATLUG] Changing the "order" of unallocated space on a disk drive

[David Salisbury]

Addendum to this issue:  GPartEd seems to have messed up my drive somehow! 
Hmm.  After doing all the resizing / moving mentioned earlier in this 
thread, LILO on the drive got (understandably and predictably) confused so I 
proceeded to my rescue disk to re-run LILO on the drive as I have had to do 
in similar situations.

Unfortunately, I now cannot fdisk this particular drive!  A command of 
"fdisk /dev/hda" yields a result of "Unable to seek on /dev/hda", which is 
something I haven't seen before.  I can still mount the partitions that are 
there, even though I can't see them with fdisk, except one of them, 
/dev/hda7, which usually functions as the / partition of things and 
therefore allows me to chroot and re-run LILO to fix things.

It sounds like my partition table got screwed up...... any suggestions on 
fixing it or what may have happened??  Plenty of backups, so I don't mind 
trying things!
David

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Salisbury" <david.salisbury at momentumweb.com>
Subject: Re: [SATLUG] Changing the "order" of unallocated space on a disk 
drive

> Ahhhhh, there it was!  I resized the container partition as you said, then 
> was able to "move" each partition I needed to to the "end" of the space. 
> Once the unallocated space was "next to" the partition I wanted to resize, 
> wah-lah, worked like a charm!  GPartEd is crunching on the operations as 
> we speak!  Thanks for the help, Don!