Re: [SLUG] boot partition

From: Chad Perrin (perrin@apotheon.com)
Date: Mon Aug 02 2004 - 20:29:28 EDT


Eben King wrote:
>
> As soon as you delete hda1, fdisk (or whoever) will renumber hda2 and hda3
> to hda1 and hda2. The new partition, in the space formerly occupied by
> hda1, will be hda3. You'd have to change fstab and lilo.conf . A better
> option (IMO) would be not to delete and recreate it, but rather to change
> its type using fdisk, then (or prior) mkfs'ing it.
>
> There's a "renumber partitions" option in fdisk that may eliminate that
> problem, but I haven't used it,
>

I'm not planning on deleting the partition -- just changing the filesystem (and
thus deleting all the files saved on it). Will it still renumber everything?

Is there any chance at all that formatting the partition with a new filesystem
will cause boot problems, aside from possibly changing the partition numbering?

-- 
Chad Perrin (apotheon .com .net .org)
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