Acronis disk director suite 9.0 Manual Do Utilizador

 

Manual Partition Operations

 

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4. By 

clicking 

OK

 in the Partition type window, you'll add the pending 

operation of partition type changing (your actions may only undo or modify 
an existing operation, See 2.4.5 «Modifying pending operations»). 

 

Attention! Changing partition type might prevent some operating systems from 

working with it, even if it is a compatible file system! 

 

Changing partition type in Windows 95/98/Me can hide a partition and change the

order of letters assigned to other partitions. As a result, some shortcuts might stop 
working. A detailed discussion of partition letter assignment rules for various 

operating systems appears in 3.1 «Creating A New Partition». 

In Linux Ext2/Ext3, the i-node index descriptor is the main data structure 
describing files. 
Each descriptor contains a file description, including file type, size, data block 
pointers, etc. Data block addresses reserved for a file are stored in its index 
descriptor. 
The space for all i-nodes must be allocated in advance (at formatting). In the 
Ext2/Ext3 file systems, the maximum number of files is set at formatting.  
The «bytes per a single i-node» value indicates the average partition file size. If 
there are many small files, there must be many descriptors, each of which 
occupies some space. Large files require fewer descriptors. 
Acronis Disk Director Suite enables you to resize i-node tables of existing 
partitions to change the maximum file amount on them. 

1. Select a disk and Linux Ext2/Ext3 partition from the list in the Acronis Disk 

Director Suite main window.