Re: changing partition names
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On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 19:11:37 -0500
Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca> wrote:
>On 14/02/16 05:00 PM, rlharris@oplink.net 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.
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