[ale] vmware decreasing hard disk size

[Narahari 'n' Savitha]

So what you say is use gparted to copy the file system.

Right after that, what I need to  is use the grub-install stuff.  Not sure
how to do this.

Any pointers appreciated.

-Narahari

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 4:09 PM, David Tomaschik
<david at systemoverlord.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
> > No, gparted moves filesystems. It may or may not move the partitions boot
> > sector, but the MBR is a definite no-no. The MBR can, however, be
> manually
> > copied, so long as only the code segment and not the partition table
> itself
> > is copied. See the wikipedia article for MBR for the layout of the MBR.
> If
> > memory serves, code is the first 440 bytes of the MBR but I am not 100%
> > certain of that.
> >
>
> The safer option, however, is just to use grub-install (or similar)
> and let tools that are designed to mess with your MBR do the heavy
> lifting.
>
>
>
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