To do what you want you would need to backup your hd, then repartition the
drive with cfdisk. Partition "magic" only works with the ext2 or 3 file
system-beware. Then copy your backup to the new partitions. Remember,
before you write a logical partition, you need to write a linux extended.
Smitty
On Tuesday 01 October 2002 09:32, you wrote:
> I have two partitions on my data disk /dev/hd1. It has one primary and one
> logical partition. The primary partition is full.
>
> I want to move some of the free space on the logical paritition to the
> primary partition and with partition magic I cannot do that. Can I change
> the primary partition from primary to logical and then proceed to move the
> free space to the first partition? Can I then change it back to a primary
> partition? Or would I need to do that at all?
>
> Michael C. Rock
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