On June 19, 2007 10:49:27 Jeff Voskamp wrote: > 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 Actually, you can reorder the number very nicely with fdisk. Go into the advanced settings, x, and type f to fix the partition order. make sure to adjust fstab!
