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 ?