[Wylug-discuss] Partitioning and LBA

[Dylan]

I originally had FC2 installed on a single hard-drive with the following
partition table:

/dev/hda1   /boot
/dev/hda2   /swap
/dev/hda3   /
/dev/hda4      W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5   /home

I then installed FC3 on a new harddrive, whihc meant the old one was now
/dev/hdb. I mounted /dev/hdb5 as /home. I considered leaving the old
partition table in case of emergencies, but decided the space was
needed, so I removed /dev/hdb1-3, then fdisked a new /dev/hdb1, so my
partition table now reads:

/dev/hdb1   /download
/dev/hdb4      W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb5   /home

I'm just wondering is this is a safe situation (it seems to be working)
and if there is a way of modifying the partition table to convert hdb5
to hdb2 without data loss?