I might be a little late to offer any help but, it sounds like `parted`
is the tool for this. It's what I use for this very thing.
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html

I always use the bootdisk.

Bart


On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 23:40, Robert.Wultsch@asu.edu wrote:
> 
> Good point about DD wiping the partion table. Thanks for the offer of chatting
> it out but I will chicken out of learning how to resize partions for the time
> being and instead create the partions, copy over the files, and stick in a
> windows install disk and go to the recover console.
> 
> If I have issues with that I will beg help some other night. IF that is the case
> I will send you an email off list to beg help.
> 
> Thanks a ton for the help.
> 
> 
> Quoting Alan Dayley <alandd@consultpros.com>:
> 
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> > On Friday 14 November 2003 11:26 pm, Robert.Wultsch@asu.edu wrote:
> > > Old Drive:
> > > 2.5 gigs on one fat partition (that just sounds wrong)
> > >
> > > New Drive:
> > > I will fdisk it blank and then create a 8 gig first partiton which
> > will
> > > receive all the files to be copied over and then a 32 gig second
> > partition
> > > to fart around with later.
> > >
> > > I am concerned really only with the dding the MBR. I can figure out
> > cp
> > > again (it has been a few months away fromt he command prompt) on my
> > own.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the reply.
> > >
> > 
> > So you want to copy only the MBR?
> > 
> > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512 count=1
> > 
> > Will copy the very first block of hda to the very first block of hdb.
> > 
> > This will, of course, wipe out your new partition table that you just
> > created 
> > so I guess I still don't understand.  Maybe dd is not the tool you
> > want.
> > 
> > Alan
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