Re: Swapping the number of 2 partitions

2014-10-17 Thread jd1008
On 10/16/2014 11:12 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 16Oct2014 22:44, jd1008 wrote: Could you explain _why_ you want to renumber the partitions? Does something have a hardwired desire to use "partition 1" or something? I think I need to do it because the windows partition for some reason will n

Re: Swapping the number of 2 partitions

2014-10-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 16Oct2014 22:44, jd1008 wrote: Could you explain _why_ you want to renumber the partitions? Does something have a hardwired desire to use "partition 1" or something? I think I need to do it because the windows partition for some reason will not boot as partition 2 even though the boot.ini w

Re: Swapping the number of 2 partitions

2014-10-16 Thread jd1008
On 10/16/2014 10:25 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 16Oct2014 18:45, jd1008 wrote: On 10/16/2014 03:32 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 16Oct2014 12:55, jd1008 wrote: I am trying to avert having to dd out 2 partitions to external drive and repartition and dd them back in. What I am trying to do

Re: Swapping the number of 2 partitions

2014-10-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 16Oct2014 18:45, jd1008 wrote: On 10/16/2014 03:32 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 16Oct2014 12:55, jd1008 wrote: I am trying to avert having to dd out 2 partitions to external drive and repartition and dd them back in. What I am trying to do is renumber partition 1 as partition 2 and parti

Re: Swapping the number of 2 partitions

2014-10-16 Thread jd1008
On 10/16/2014 03:32 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 16Oct2014 12:55, jd1008 wrote: I am trying to avert having to dd out 2 partitions to external drive and repartition and dd them back in. What I am trying to do is renumber partition 1 as partition 2 and partition 2 as partition 1. Is this pos

Re: Swapping the number of 2 partitions

2014-10-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 16Oct2014 12:55, jd1008 wrote: I am trying to avert having to dd out 2 partitions to external drive and repartition and dd them back in. What I am trying to do is renumber partition 1 as partition 2 and partition 2 as partition 1. Is this possible? parted and fdisk and sfdisk do not seem to

Swapping the number of 2 partitions

2014-10-16 Thread jd1008
I am trying to avert having to dd out 2 partitions to external drive and repartition and dd them back in. What I am trying to do is renumber partition 1 as partition 2 and partition 2 as partition 1. Is this possible? parted and fdisk and sfdisk do not seem to provide such operations. -- users