William Case wrote:
Hi;
Over the last 3 Fedora installs, I have managed to get my partition
numbers out of sequence.
parted /dev/sdb returns:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 8225kB 41.1GB 41.1GB extended lba
5 8258kB 90.5MB 82.2MB logical ext3 boot
6 90.5MB 1349MB 1258MB logical linux-swap
7 1349MB 9739MB 8390MB logical ext3
8 9739MB 30.6GB 20.9GB logical ext3
9 30.6GB 41.1GB 10.5GB logical fat32
Starting correctly with number 1 (sdb1) then jumps to 5 (sdb5). How can
I rename my partitions so that they go in sequence; sdb1, sdb2, ...
sdb6.
This is simply a neatness fetish; the numbering is not presently causing
any problems to the actual opeation of F-7. Am I best just to leave it
alone, or is there a simple way or program that can re-number these
partitions?
Partitions 1-4 are primary partitions defined in the partition table in
sector 1 of the disk.
Partitions 5 and up are logical partitions residing inside the extended
partition.
You can't simply renumber the partitions since you'd have to pull some
out of the extended partition. However, using something like Partition
Magic you could possibly shrink one or more of the larger ones, create
partitions 2-4, copy over the contents and delete some of the higher
numbered ones. It would take a while and not really buy you anything,
other than the nice numbering. :-)
Jeff Voskamp
