Package: gparted Version: 0.4.6-2 Severity: normal I had a USB disk with two partitions. I needed to reverse their order (so sdb2 became sdb1 and vice versa). gparted easily handled reordering the partitions on the disk, but left them numbered the same, so that sdb2 came before sdb1 on the disk. I had to use fdisk's advanced option for fixing partition ordering to rewrite the partition table with the correct numbering.
Please consider adding support in gparted to change the numbering of partitions, not just their order. In the common case, these should always match; I'd suggest adding a warning like fdisk has about partition numbering not matching the order of the partitions on disk, and adding an option to renumber them in disk order. The more unusual case, of renumbering partitions arbitrarily and independently of disk order, seems potentially useful but far less important. Thanks, Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages gparted depends on: ii hal 0.5.13-3 Hardware Abstraction Layer ii libc6 2.10.1-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.4.2-1 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.22.2-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libglibmm-2.4-1c2 2.22.1-2 C++ wrapper for the GLib toolkit ( ii libgtk2.0-0 2.18.3-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a 1:2.18.2-1 C++ wrappers for GTK+ 2.4 (shared ii libpangomm-1.4-1 2.26.0-1 C++ Wrapper for pango (shared libr ii libparted1.8-12 1.8.8.git.2009.07.19-5 The GNU Parted disk partitioning s ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2 2.0.18-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.4.2-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of packages gparted recommends: ii gksu 2.0.2-2+b1 graphical frontend to su Versions of packages gparted suggests: pn dmraid <none> (no description available) ii dmsetup 2:1.02.38-2 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use ii dosfstools 3.0.6-1 utilities for making and checking pn jfsutils <none> (no description available) ii kpartx 0.4.8-15.1 create device mappings for partiti pn ntfsprogs <none> (no description available) pn reiser4progs <none> (no description available) pn reiserfsprogs <none> (no description available) pn xfsprogs <none> (no description available) ii yelp 2.28.0+webkit-1 Help browser for GNOME -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
