Re: Moving partition to an overlapping position

[Andrew Clausen]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 05:15:45PM +0300, Ville Herva wrote:
> (parted) move 2 32kB 110GB                                                    
>   
> Error: Can't move a partition onto itself.  Try using resize, perhaps?    
> 
> What I don't perfectly understand is why this is so hard to implement. Isn't
> this just a case of copying the 110GB in 10GB (or smaller) chunks towards
> the beginning of the disk? I'm probably missing something, right?

The implementation you suggest is dangerous.  If, for example, there
were a blackout halfway during the process, you would lose your
data.

Cheers,
Andrew