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Re: Building a multiboot system!

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On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 07:16:03 -0000, Rod Pemberton  
<dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 01:22:53 -0500, dg1261 <dgREMOVE-THIS1261@cs.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> Harry Potter <rose.joseph12@yahoo.com> wrote in news:fdc28ccd-7e2d-403e-
>> 98ac-38fddde4e536@googlegroups.com:
>>
>>> Do the aforementioned boot managers support resizing a partition?
>>>
>>
>> Technically speaking, resizing a partition is a completely different
>> function from the function of a boot manager.  The job of a boot manager
>> is to manage or select which partition the computer will boot.  Resizing
>> partitions is the job of a partition manager, whose functions include
>> adding, deleting, moving, and/or resizing partitions.  The job of a
>> partition imager is to backup, restore, or clone/copy partitions.
>>
>
> I've only resized a partition once.  That was a long time ago.  I resized
> it to a *smaller* size.  AFAIK, the partition manager didn't relocate  
> files
> that were in the space for the new partition.  Fortunately, Windows  
> 98/SE's
> defrag command re-allocates from higher to lower tracks.  Unfortunately,
> for DOS, you'd probably need some special tool to ensure files are  
> allocated
> on lower tracks.  If you're resizing to a larger size, then simply  
> rewriting
> larger partition size in the correct partition record of the master boot
> sector should work.  You could use fdisk or cfdisk in Linux to do that
> (booted from another device, of course).

Unless you go over a size boundary, and need an expanded FAT entry.

>
> Rod Pemberton


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Building a multiboot system! Patrick Rockwell <prockwell@thegrid.net> - 2013-12-18 20:25 -0800
  Re: Building a multiboot system! JJ <duh@nah.meh> - 2013-12-19 13:01 +0700
    Re: Building a multiboot system! Patrick Rockwell <prockwell@thegrid.net> - 2013-12-19 17:37 -0800
      Re: Building a multiboot system! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2013-12-20 02:16 -0500
        Re: Building a multiboot system! "Stanley Daniel de Liver" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2013-12-20 11:30 +0000
          Re: Building a multiboot system! dg1261 <dgREMOVE-THIS1261@cs.com> - 2013-12-21 00:59 +0000
            Re: Building a multiboot system! "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2013-12-21 12:18 +0000
              Re: Building a multiboot system! "Stanley Daniel de Liver" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2013-12-21 15:11 +0000
              Re: Building a multiboot system! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2013-12-21 17:35 -0500
                Re: Building a multiboot system! "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2013-12-21 23:33 +0000
            Re: Building a multiboot system! "Stanley Daniel de Liver" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2013-12-21 14:47 +0000
        Re: Building a multiboot system! Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2013-12-22 15:31 -0500
  Re: Building a multiboot system! dg1261 <dgREMOVE-THIS1261@cs.com> - 2013-12-19 11:29 +0000
    Re: Building a multiboot system! Harry Potter <rose.joseph12@yahoo.com> - 2013-12-19 08:10 -0800
      Re: Building a multiboot system! Patrick Rockwell <prockwell@thegrid.net> - 2013-12-19 13:37 -0800
      Re: Building a multiboot system! dg1261 <dgREMOVE-THIS1261@cs.com> - 2013-12-20 06:22 +0000
        Re: Building a multiboot system! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2013-12-20 02:16 -0500
          Re: Building a multiboot system! "Stanley Daniel de Liver" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2013-12-20 11:15 +0000
          Re: Building a multiboot system! dg1261 <dgREMOVE-THIS1261@cs.com> - 2013-12-21 00:56 +0000
            Re: Building a multiboot system! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2013-12-21 01:51 -0500
              Re: Building a multiboot system! dg1261 <dgREMOVE-THIS1261@cs.com> - 2013-12-21 08:54 +0000
                Re: Building a multiboot system! "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2013-12-21 12:26 +0000
              Re: Building a multiboot system! Steph <pas.de.mail@serveur.invalid> - 2013-12-21 15:11 +0000
    Re: Building a multiboot system! Patrick Rockwell <prockwell@thegrid.net> - 2014-02-07 14:15 -0800
      Re: Building a multiboot system! dg1261 <dgREMOVE-THIS1261@cs.com> - 2014-02-08 09:41 +0000
  Re: Building a multiboot system! miepbart@gmail.com - 2014-08-17 00:02 -0700

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