FW: [SunHELP] change partition table without damage

sorry I am quick on the trigger and do not mean to email you directly.
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no i've blown out the last 3 slices and made one huge and it will 
leave the others in tact since the label still indicates their
correct cylinder map

HTH

-----Original Message-----
From: Dicu Silviu [mailto:linuxsil at yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 10:39 AM
To: Markham, Richard
Subject: Re: FW: [SunHELP] change partition table without damage


of course I'll do it like this but I was just wondering if after i
write the partition it will damage the rest.
i have no other system right now to do a test for this ...

thanks

--- "Markham, Richard" <RMarkham at hafeleamericas.com> wrote:
> You can use cylinders 4194-19154 to allocate to other slices...
> Basically, make sure none of your slices overlap.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dicu Silviu [mailto:linuxsil at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 10:22 AM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunHELP] change partition table without damage
> 
> 
> hello,
> 
> i have a disk of 36GB. the partitions that are alocated don't take
> the full disk space. I was wondering if I can use format to make a
> new partition without damaging the rest (where I have data). For
> example I want to make 4 (opt) and not to damage the rest.
> 
> thanks
> 
> this is a snapshot from partition print from format command
> 
> Current partition table (original):
> Total disk cylinders available: 19156 + 2 (reserved cylinders)
> 
> Part      Tag    Flag     Cylinders         Size            Blocks
>   0       root    wm     644 -  1143      996.09MB    (500/0/0)   
> 2040000
>   1       swap    wu     129 -   643        1.00GB    (515/0/0)   
> 2101200
>   2     backup    wm       0 - 19155       37.27GB    (19156/0/0)
> 78156480
>   3        var    wm    1144 -  2643        2.92GB    (1500/0/0)  
> 6120000
>   4 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)      
>  
>    0
>   5 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)      
>  
>    0
>   6        usr    wm    2644 -  4143        2.92GB    (1500/0/0)  
> 6120000
>   7 unassigned    wm    4144 -  4193       99.61MB    (50/0/0)     
> 204000
> 
> 
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> Silviu Dicu
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Silviu Dicu

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