Re: changing partition names
Frank McCormick composed on 2016-02-15 19:26 (UTC-0500):
> On 15/02/16 06:32 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
>> Lisi Reisz composed on 2016-02-15 23:16 (UTC):
>>> Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>>>> Why would you want to renumber the partition ? It provides absolutely no
>>>> benefit and can break things such as the bootloader which may seek data
>>>> on partitions identified by their numbers.
>>> If it ain't broke, don't fix it??? ;-)
>> IMO it broke when sda3 got deleted, but is easily fixed by putting any
>> partition into any part of the current freespace.
> There is NO free space. It's now part of the Debian partition, the
> rest belongs to Bill gates creation :)
> I am beginning to agree...if it ain't broke.....
OK, so I misread your fdisk output. There is no freespace. Still I think the
missing #3 partition table entry amounts to a lurking booby trap waiting to
pounce after history has been forgotten.
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