[ale] vmware decreasing hard disk size

[Narahari 'n' Savitha]

How to get grub2 installed on the resized parition, use livecd or any other
ways ?

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Narahari 'n' Savitha
<savithari at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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