If it isn't broke, don't fix it. That's my philosophy. Jim On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 10:57 -0700, Ted Marshall wrote: > > 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". > >
