On 2011/04/22 19:00 (GMT-0400) Anton Aylward composed:

Felix Miata said:

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With what you have, if I wanted a 5G logical to begin at 157, I would issue this command: cr log ext2 5000 -f:3 ... If I wanted a primary in that same location, the command would be similar: cr pri ext2 5000 -f:3

But I can do that now with fdisk and mkfs, so WHY?

Those were purely FWIW.

The problem I foresee is NOT creating the ext2/3 file system at 157, but populating it. As I said, using rsync is going to muck up /dev/ /proc /sys and so on.

Most of the content of those is dynamically created at boot. While booted to a live CD, none of their virtually non-existent content matters. While booted to one or the other of them, none of the content on the other matters. You're fretting over nothing.

When and *only* when I have the root moved to be adjacent to root and swap do I worry about how to manipulate the free space.

I do plenty of cloning and moving of root partitions. As long as you make the necessary mods to fstab, menu.lst & grub.conf, ensure you haven't cloned and left be any UUIDs or volume labels, and _install_ Grub when necessary, it's really not difficult or particularly complicated.

At that point I have many options. a) I can make both the aareas into LVM Volumes this has the advantage of simplicity b) I can look at ways of altering where the logical partition begins c) I can look at ways of altering the size of a LVM volume by altering the position/size in the logocal partition. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation)

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