Re: changing partition names

[Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca>]

On 14/02/16 07:56 PM, Charlie Kravetz wrote:
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> On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 19:11:37 -0500
> Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca> wrote:
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> > 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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  Yes it does work...but it just seems weird to me :) Maybe it's my OCD
kicking in but they should be sda1 sda2 sda3 :)

I don't thinkI want to get involved with backing up creating new one 
then restoring to solve what seems like a simple problem.