Moving Linux boot partitition with DD10

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I have gone back to DD10 and OSS10 after the latest version did not meet my needs.

I have freed up some more space on a hard disk in order to increase the size for a Linux boot partition. In order to make my boot partition larger I need to just move the partition to the left of where it is and increase the size of the partition. The actual order of my partitions will not change. The Linux boot partition has just the /boot directory on it and points correctly to the appropriate / partition for my Linux installation.

I want to use DD10 to do this and want to know if DD10 will do this in such a way that the Linux boot partition will still be bootable and that OSS10 will find it after the move.

The boot partition uses 'grub' but my understanding is that if the boot partition data does not change, and its order on my hard drive does not change, then its UUID should not change, and I should not have to do anything further with 'grub' to make this work. But maybe I am wrong about this and will gladly be corrected if so.

Thu, 07/22/2010 - 16:22
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I think the UUID will change if you move the partition. Whenever working with GRUB/Linux, I expect to have to reactivate/reinstall GRUB after making any changes that affect any partition used by them.

GRUB2 may be harder to break. GRUB breaks very easily.

Thu, 07/22/2010 - 18:03
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MudCrab wrote:

I think the UUID will change if you move the partition. Whenever working with GRUB/Linux, I expect to have to reactivate/reinstall GRUB after making any changes that affect any partition used by them.

GRUB2 may be harder to break. GRUB breaks very easily.

I will ask about the UUID elsewhere, thanks !

Will the boot code still remain intac so the partition is still bootable once I move it ?

Thu, 07/22/2010 - 21:32