Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:34:37 -0400 From: William Case <billlinux@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Partition neatness and order question ? To: FEDORA List <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <1182270878.3257.10.camel@CASE> Content-Type: text/plain 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? -- Regards Bill
This one's easy. xxx1 through xxx4 are reserved for primary/extended partitions. All logical drives within the extended partitions use xxx5 and on, no matter how few primary partitions there are. Your extended partition is probably sdb2. The only way to get the partition numbering continuous is to use only primary partitions (sdb1 through sdb4) and then you're limited to 4 partitions, at least with standard partitioning.
Having said that, there should be no reason to worry about the partition numbers, except to made things "pretty".
