[ale] Realigning a partition with data

[jim.kinney at gmail.com (Jim Kinney)]

I would not consider realignment safe with data on the sectors that are
soon to be outside the partition.

On Apr 23, 2017 2:00 AM, "Alex Carver" <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:

> Just swapped out a spinning drive for an SSD but I probably need to
> realign the partitions.  Currently everything is in one partition at the
> start of the disk but it's on sector 63.  I can pop the disk out and
> plug it into another machine to do this but I'd like to slide the
> partition over to the right spot (assuming this doesn't affect the boot
> process).  I haven't found a way to do this as nearly every page I find
> talks about having parted align new partitions but not those that have
> data.
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