[cobalt-users] [RaQ4] Using dd to move a partition

["William J.A. Brillinger" <billy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

ok now how about this...

I have a clean install from an OSR CD on hdb. But I have used Partition 
magic to resize partitions hdb3 and hdb4 to make room for a larger swap 
file and larger hdb1 (/var) I have also already resized the swap and 
verified that the cobalt sees it properly after booting with this drive as hda.

fdisk -l gives:

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1             1      1530    771119+  83  Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
     phys=(95, 254, 63) should be (95, 15, 63)
/dev/hdb2          1531      3076    779152+   5  Extended
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
     phys=(192, 254, 63) should be (192, 15, 63)
/dev/hdb3          3076      3491    208845   83  Linux
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary:
     phys=(218, 254, 63) should be (218, 15, 63)
/dev/hdb4          3491     19635   8136922+  83  Linux
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary:
     phys=(1023, 254, 63) should be (1023, 15, 63)
/dev/hdb5          1531      1594     32129+  83  Linux
/dev/hdb6          2041      3076    522112   82  Linux swap

now, how, using dd do I move the boot partition, hdb5 up to take up the 
slack between it and hdb6 so I can resize hdb1. Partition magic won't touch 
the boot partition and drive copy is the source of all my grief in the 
first place with the old drive and the boot partition.

If dd can do this easily, then I'm happy - unfortunately it's new territory 
for me.

- Bill



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