[arch-general] fdisk vs cfdisk... And is my drive borked or what?

[Linas]

On 18/03/10 12:52, Mauro Santos wrote:
> On 03/18/2010 09:10 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
>    
>> 0xf, 5, Who cares which it's called? As long as it contains the logical
>> partitions...  But the ending sector thing will bug me if I don't fix it.
>> So for my piece of mind I'm gonna have to do something...
>>      
> Gparted (which is just a frontend for parted) may be able to resize your
> extended partition without touching any of the logical partitions inside
> (you may need to delete your last partition first though, it all depends
> on what alignment gparted will try to use), however I try not to use
> gparted because once it wrecked havoc during a resize operation, because
> of that and because I have a big enough spare disk, I always do a full
> backup before any major partition changes.
>
> Your primary partitions are safe but the logical ones can just vanish if
> things go wrong. I guess that if you take note of the start and end
> sectors for all partitions you can recreate the layout if anything goes
> wrong (I have never tried it though so I can't say how well that will work).
>    
It works. But you should copy the values *in sectors*. It's amazing how 
different
tools interpret the same values on different actual positions.

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