[ale] Oops - Want to rearrange two partitions

[jimpop at yahoo.com (Jim Popovitch)]

On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 13:20 -0500, John Mills wrote:
> Jim -
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> My level of comfort with fdisk is pretty good. If I understand that part 
> of the process, I would:
> 
> 1. Backup files and directories,
> 
> 2. Edit the partition table,
> 
> 3. 'mkfs' on the changed partions ('reiserfs' in this case), and
> 
> 4. Recover directories and contents from my backups.
> 
> Did I follow that?

Yes.  My only caution is that you should only edit the partitions that
you intend to mkfs.

-Jim P.