-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 19:11:37 -0500 Frank McCormick <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 14/02/16 05:00 PM, [email protected] 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. - -- Charlie Kravetz Linux Registered User Number 425914 [http://linuxcounter.net/user/425914.html] Never let anyone steal your DREAM. [http://keepingdreams.com] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJWwSI2AAoJEIqui46mydCA6M0H/RbPLlZJSS51sjSnjMXUpxMT 8QREy3gSthznuXtgQlDsRgBIhVWOF6ZNoA1yDnZmlf4KP1EnY5JJweVbNeJ2XaSn so4Nir7H0xkZTgv5QfFGeXnTURK9nuejt9eHUZj1x5wnv7FfoJATiJUbAP4dSiUB QAaxxsblzR6BLCAqgT98PV4Ny4DxsKpthNNwqNteIHWLoTdMO4nic5iHW3WKS074 BpoQzY6hzwu27TgnjUe7sns/t4tsgDJIyv1d15Zu5oTo9O7pgK+9pqYiEe0HzdNr OQq9hXzMdxRNvlypi8Onq0+RQl/utJIwA8BwUGnupjitYPg9HnOrTlDGKdlniWE= =Sbgu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
