Hard Drive Partion Query

CU_AMiGA · 09 September 2011, 19:33

Yo!

I ve had an idea about something for a continuation for my Amiga 4000 project. I currently have a 180gb(?) hard drive with a 500mb 1st partition, and a 100gb 2nd partition. I was wondering whether it would be possible to either split the 1st partition in 2 (256mb each) partitions without losing data, or insert another partition between partitions 1 and 2 without losing data? is any of this possible?!

regards

orange · 09 September 2011, 19:49

yeah, if you backup data first..
otherwise, I doubt it.
on windows, you'd defragment it and some software would resize partition; but not sure if there's such thing on amiga.

you forgot to say which filesystem, btw.

thomas · 09 September 2011, 20:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by CU_AMiGA

Yo!

I ve had an idea about something for a continuation for my Amiga 4000 project. I currently have a 180gb(?) hard drive with a 500mb 1st partition, and a 100gb 2nd partition. I was wondering whether it would be possible to either split the 1st partition in 2 (256mb each) partitions without losing data, or insert another partition between partitions 1 and 2 without losing data? is any of this possible?!

regards

The partitions which aren't changed won't lose their data, but the partition you change will need to be formatted. There is no repartition tool for AmigaOS.

FOL · 09 September 2011, 20:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by thomas

The partitions which aren't changed won't lose their data, but the partition you change will need to be formatted. There is no repartition tool for AmigaOS.

Thomas is right.
Any partition you resize will need to be formatted.

Best thing to do is backup your 500MB partition to another partition, then alter it, format and copy backup back to 256MB partition.

CU_AMiGA · 09 September 2011, 21:35

What about if I just move the partitions and not resize them?

thomas · 09 September 2011, 21:40

Move = change

Tools like HDToolbox only edit the partition table, they do not copy any data.

CU_AMiGA · 09 September 2011, 22:58

Is it worth noting I m using smartfilesystem?

thomas · 10 September 2011, 08:42

File system does not matter for HDToolbox.

If one would be willing to write a partition mover tool, it would be even more difficult to move an SFS partition than to move other file systems, because SFS stores absolute block numbers in some of its control blocks.

CU_AMiGA · 10 September 2011, 15:37

ok guys thanks for your comments!

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CU_AMiGA Banned Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Exeter Age: 38 Posts: 970	Hard Drive Partion Query Yo! I ve had an idea about something for a continuation for my Amiga 4000 project. I currently have a 180gb(?) hard drive with a 500mb 1st partition, and a 100gb 2nd partition. I was wondering whether it would be possible to either split the 1st partition in 2 (256mb each) partitions without losing data, or insert another partition between partitions 1 and 2 without losing data? is any of this possible?! regards

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09 September 2011, 19:49	#2
orange Registered User Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Belgrade Posts: 567	yeah, if you backup data first.. otherwise, I doubt it. on windows, you'd defragment it and some software would resize partition; but not sure if there's such thing on amiga. you forgot to say which filesystem, btw.

09 September 2011, 21:35	#5
CU_AMiGA Banned Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Exeter Age: 38 Posts: 970	What about if I just move the partitions and not resize them?

09 September 2011, 21:40	#6
thomas Registered User Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Germany Posts: 6,987	Move = change Tools like HDToolbox only edit the partition table, they do not copy any data.

09 September 2011, 22:58	#7
CU_AMiGA Banned Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Exeter Age: 38 Posts: 970	Is it worth noting I m using smartfilesystem?

10 September 2011, 08:42	#8
thomas Registered User Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Germany Posts: 6,987	File system does not matter for HDToolbox. If one would be willing to write a partition mover tool, it would be even more difficult to move an SFS partition than to move other file systems, because SFS stores absolute block numbers in some of its control blocks.

10 September 2011, 15:37	#9
CU_AMiGA Banned Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Exeter Age: 38 Posts: 970	ok guys thanks for your comments!

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