Just curious

[R. Hirschfeld]

> Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 16:58:35 -0400
> From: "GDB-B&W-YDL3.0.1" <slugg0@adelphia.net>

> Okay, got my grass mowed and some other Saturday chores done, now where 
> were we.  Ah yes, the partition map dump from pdisk:
> 
> Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/hda'
>  #:                type name                   length   base     ( size )
>  1: Apple_partition_map Apple                      63 @ 1
>  2:      Apple_Driver43*Macintosh                  56 @ 64
>  3:      Apple_Driver43*Macintosh                  56 @ 120
>  4:    Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh                  56 @ 176
>  5:    Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh                  56 @ 232
>  6:      Apple_FWDriver Macintosh                 512 @ 288
>  7:  Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh                 512 @ 800
>  8:       Apple_Patches Patch Partition           512 @ 1312
> 14:          Apple_Free Extra                  262144 @ 1824     (128.0M)
> 10:           Apple_HFS "Present"            63510328 @ 263968   ( 30.3G)
> 15:          Apple_Free Extra                  262144 @ 63774296 (128.0M)
> 12:           Apple_HFS "Past"               12282640 @ 64036440 (  5.9G)
>  9:     Apple_Bootstrap untitled                 2048 @ 76319080 (  1.0M)
> 11:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap                  2048000 @ 76321128 (1000.0M)
> 13:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled             20480000 @ 78369128 (  9.8G)
> 16:          Apple_Free Extra                61237400 @ 98849128 ( 29.2G)
>  
> Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=160086528 (76.3G)
> DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
> Drivers-
> 1:  23 @ 64, type=0x1
> 2:  36 @ 120, type=0xffff
> 3:  21 @ 176, type=0x701
> 4:  34 @ 232, type=0xf8ff
> 
> As you can see, it's pretty much the way I said earlier so my question 
> is, how difficult would it be to move the bootstrap partition to where 
> hda14 is?

You could use pdisk to make a new 2048-block boot partition at 1824,
use dd to copy the old boot partition there (e.g., "dd if=/dev/hda9
of=/dev/hda14 bs=1M count=1" if the new partition is number 14), and
then use pdisk again to renumber the new partition as 9 and delete the
old one (it would become yet another free space partition).

Ray