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how do I make room for a partition at the start of a drive ?

Capt'n Midnight · 2007-02-05 23:01:20

I want to free up some space at the start of a drive by resizing the first partition. I could backup, create the new one and restore but that would be just too sensible. prefer not to use partiton tragic is there like a ranish / qtparted / gparted that leaves a gap the start instead of the end of a partition ? Partition is…

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06-02-2007 12:01am

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I want to free up some space at the start of a drive by resizing the first partition. I could backup, create the new one and restore but that would be just too sensible.

prefer not to use partiton tragic

is there like a ranish / qtparted / gparted that leaves a gap the start instead of the end of a partition ?

Partition is FAT32 which should make life easier.

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#2 06-02-2007 12:43am
quaidox

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isnt the master boot record located on sector zero of the hard drive??

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#3 06-02-2007 1:35am
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indeed it is,
but the first partition doesn't have to start immediately after it.
Looking for space for swapfiles and boot loader - but don't want to wipe the OS that's there already

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#4 06-02-2007 6:21am
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The GParted move/resize widget allows you to specify free space preceeding (and following) a partition:

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#5 07-02-2007 12:52am
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Snowbat wrote:

The GParted move/resize widget allows you to specify free space preceeding (and following) a partition:

Wow you're not wrong there

Thanks.

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