[Techtalk] Partitioning issues.

[Staci]

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Elizabeth Barham wrote:

> Provided fdisk does not alter the data on the physical partitions
> themselves but rather only alters the partition table on the drive,
> and provided that there is no timestamp or other type of state that
> cannot be re-created, then it sounds to me as though it would work but
> I have not tried it.


That's what i've been thinking.
unfortunately, it doesn't work quite that easily.
Once you've altered the table, it wants a new fs, and it won't take no for an answer. :/


Staci