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Offline billyfish

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Re: HD Toolbox question
« on: March 09, 2012, 12:16:30 PM »
Quote from: Piru;683039
That will not work. Don't even bother trying.

FFS finds the root block by locating the middle block of the partition. If you resize the partition the rootblock cannot be found, and the filesystem will apear completely corrupt. Also, there are no guarantees that all filesystem blocks will be located at the beginning of the disk, even after ReOrg.


This is probably going down a blind alley but is that the same for PFS? I remember when I bought its predecessor, AFS, that it came with a program that converted FFS partitions tp AFS ones whilst keeping all of the data intact. I think it was by the author of ReOrg. I still remember watching the progress bar as I didn't have anywhere to back my data up to before doing it, gulp! Not sure it would be of any use in this situation, mind.

A partition magic type tool for the amiga would be well worth the bounty I think.

billy