yes, as I know, the num can not be changed and specified. What is your purpose of creating a partition like you said 1,2,4 without 3? The more convenient way I can tell, is the name. You can use the partition name to control the partitions.
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 11:33 PM, Christoph Pleger < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am quite new to parted, and I am surprised that neither in the library > nor in the command line tool I can find a possibility to set the partition > number when creating a new partition. For example, MSDOS and GPT partition > types allow empty partition entries, so it is strange that a user who wants > to create partitions 1, 2 and 4 has to create partition 3 as a dummy > partition and then delete it, because partition numbers depend on the order > of partition creation. Or am I missing something? > > Regards > Christoph > > -- This is my life,but world of us~~

