Frank McCormick a écrit : > I have deleted a partition from my HD containing a distro I no longer use. > As a result, my partitions on /dev/sda are numbered sda1. sda2 (windows) > and sda4. sda3 contained the distro I dumped. > > 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 ?
The partition is already properly named. There is nothing wrong in having unused partition entries between used partition entries. The partition table is just that : a table. Why would you want to renumber the partition ? It provides absolutely no benefit and can break things such as the bootloader which may seek data on partitions identified by their numbers.
