On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Tom Horsley <horsley1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been rearranging a disk with gparted and it left > me with this: > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdb4 2048 976773119 488385536 5 Extended > /dev/sdb5 4096 51204095 25600000 83 Linux > /dev/sdb6 51206144 976771071 462782464 83 Linux > > If I try to mount the partitions at boot time, something > gets very confused by the extended partition being /dev/sdb4 > instead of /dev/sdb1. > > Is there a quick way I can move the 4th primary partition entry > to the 1st primary partition entry? > > Or is a hex edit and extreme care my only hope? > > Or maybe it would all be simpler if I just DDed the one partition > I'm trying to keep to a file, reinitialize the disk from scratch, > and then DD it back (making sure to make the partition the identical > size). > -- > What does sdb1, sdb2,and sdb3 look like? sdb5 should start at 2048, The end of sdb5 and start of sdb6 should be one number different.. I see problems. Marvin
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