[haiku] Re: Can I manually extend BFS partition?
- From: Anoop Kumar Narayanan <anoop.kn@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:23:44 +0530
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Anoop Kumar Narayanan
<anoop.kn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> How did you install Haiku ? Using CD ISO or USB img ?
As, do you have an Haiku CD installer in hand ?
> Bye,
> -Anoop
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> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Kevin Ar18 <kevinar18@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Ok, I know you are not normally supposed to do this, but I'm in a rather odd
>> situation. My hard drive went bad and it would be so much easier if I could
>> move files now before I get the new hard drive.
>>
>> Problem: The only working "drive" I have is Haiku on a USB stick and 2nd
>> FAT32 formatted USB stick.
>> Problem2: The Haiku partition was the default 600MB Haiku image; however,
>> the USB stick has 4GB of space... meaning over 3GB of space is "lost"
>> Problem3: I have 500-600MB of data on the second FAT32 stick that I need to
>> save somewhere: this means I cannot turn the other drive into another
>> bootable Haiku or BSD without losing said data.
>>
>> So... is it possible to manually the partition tables of either drive?
>> On the Haiku 600mb image so that it will show more space (the USB stick has
>> 4GB)
>> On the FAT32 stick so the partition uses less space (assuming all my data is
>> in the early part of the partition).
>>
>> I did not find any partition information on the BFS format, so...
>>
>>
>> Alternatively, can anyone recommend a 3rd option that can be done just with
>> the two USB sticks? I need to preserve a total of 600MB of data on each
>> stick. Is there any way to turn the FAT32 drive into something bootable?
>> Boot into a BSD installer or something?
>>
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