William Case <billlinux@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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 boot6 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.
It does that because the first partition is an extended partition (5-9 are
contained in no. 1).
The maximum number of extended plus primary partitions on a single drive
is 4 so it reserves 2-4
for the other 3 partitions that might be added later. This actually keeps
the numbers in order
relative to the end and start of the partitions.
The numbers can only be changed if you repartition the disk. I suppose it
CAN be done without
destroying the data on the disk, but it wouldn't be easy.
--
Boy Hartsuiker
