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