[mythtv-users] Need help - partitioning foobar

[Craig Huff]

Mike,

You are correct.  I need to be more careful in saying what I mean. ;-)

Thanks for adding the clarification.

Craig.


On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

> On 01/30/2013 11:16 AM, Mike Perkins wrote:
>
>> On 30/01/13 14:22, Craig Huff wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the feedback, but I need a little more info.
>>>
>>> I know it started at sector 63 and used the whole disk -- originally
>>> partitioned with gparted 0.5.1.  Do I just use gparted again and format
>>>  it
>>> as JFS using the whole disk as I did originally, or do I need to do
>>> something different to avoid wiping out the file definitions?
>>>
>>>  Whatever method you do, you do *not* want to reformat your volume,
>> ever. That is a sure way to lose your data!
>>
>> What you need to do is to recreate the information in the partition table
>> so that it replicates what was there before. Others have given suggestions
>> how that can be done.
>>
>
> Definitely a good point to make--just in case--but I'm guessing he meant,
> "set the partition type to JFS."  Still, it's good to get the proper
> terminology and warnings into the archives.  :)
>
> Mike
>
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