On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 22:33:23 -0500 Frank McCormick <debianl...@videotron.ca> wrote:
> On 14/02/16 07:56 PM, Charlie Kravetz wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 19:11:37 -0500 > > Frank McCormick <debianl...@videotron.ca> wrote: > > > >> On 14/02/16 05:00 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > >>> On Sun, February 14, 2016 2:42 pm, Frank McCormick wrote: > >>>> Can I just use fdisk or fsdisk to dump the existing partition > >>>> record edit the file to change sda4 to sda3 and then use fdisk > >>>> or sfdisk to read the file and create a properly named partition > >>>> record ? > >>> > >>> To rename partitions, I use gnome-disk-utility. For some > >>> operations I use GParted. I tend to get into trouble when using > >>> fdisk or fsdisk. > >>> > >>> Russ > >>> > >> > >> > >> Unfortunately neither of those can do what I need. > >> This is what I have now from sfdisk -l > >> > >> label: dos > >> label-id: 0x5a74aac4 > >> device: /dev/sda > >> unit: sectors > >> > >> /dev/sda1 : start= 2048, size= 194560, type=7 > >> /dev/sda2 : start= 196608, size= 81920000, type=7 > >> /dev/sda4 : start= 82116608, size= 74131456, type=83, > >> bootable > >> > >> ^^^^^^^^ this is what I need to change to /dev/sda3 > >> > >> sda1 and sda2 are the Windows partitions. sda4 is Debian > >> > > > > Debian should not care if a partition number is missing. It should > > still work. The only way I know to renumber a partition is to delete > > the ones after the missing number. Then you can create new > > partitions, starting at the empty space. > > > > - -- > > Yes it does work...but it just seems weird to me :) Maybe it's my > OCD kicking in but they should be sda1 sda2 sda3 :) This is literally just OCD. There is nothing wrong with having sda1/sda2/sda4 as opposed to sda1/sda2/sda3 (though I admit the latter is more aesthetically pleasing), just as sda1/sda5/sda9 is equally valid. Just fight your OCD. Debian will survive having uneven partition numbering, and will continue to work tickety-boo.
