[Gllug] Partition numbering

[Dylan]

Something like PartitionMagic can hide partitions (it has a bootloader which 
with deal with the necessary shenanigans)

Or fdisk can assign the 'active' partition, which will be used as the boot 
partition in Windoze

On Thursday 08 August 2002 19:56, Stan wrote:
> Not about linux at all (well I'm hoping a linux tool has the answer
> but otherwise).
>
> Is there anyway I can renumber partitions on a partition table without
> loosing data?
>
> I'd like to play with a few operating systems on one machine (a laptop
> so multiple disks aren't practical), they are varieties of windows so
> I don't think it's easy/possible to have them co-exist without seeing
> each other?
>
> I'd like (preferably using lilo or more likely something like fdisk)
> to make hda3 -->hda2 and hda2-->hda3 or something similar?
>
> Is this possible?  What would I use?
>
> hda1 is the boot partition and runs lilo....which will then boot me
> into linux or windows...

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