[ale] vmware decreasing hard disk size

David Tomaschik david at systemoverlord.com
Mon Mar 21 16:09:59 EDT 2011


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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