Summary
Repartitioning an existing hard disk setup is one of the most tedious and dangerous operations that's commonly required in creating and maintaining a multi-OS configuration. This chapter provides an overview of three methods for performing this task:
Converting a partition from use by one OS to use by another
Backing up data, repartitioning, and restoring data
Using a dynamic partition resizer—PartitionMagic, in particular
Whatever method you use, repartitioning a hard disk has consequences on drive letter assignment in Microsoft-style OSs, and on device identifiers for hard disk partitions in UNIX OSs. If you plan your partition changes carefully, you can often avoid painful consequences of your changes. You can often even configure your ...
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