Partition neatness and order question ?

Jeff Voskamp javoskam at uwaterloo.ca
Tue Jun 19 16:49:27 UTC 2007


William Case wrote:
> Hi;
>
> Over the last 3 Fedora installs, I have managed to get my partition
> numbers out of sequence.  
>
> parted /dev/sdb returns:
> Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system  Flags
>  1      8225kB  41.1GB  41.1GB  extended               lba  
>  5      8258kB  90.5MB  82.2MB  logical   ext3         boot 
>  6      90.5MB  1349MB  1258MB  logical   linux-swap        
>  7      1349MB  9739MB  8390MB  logical   ext3              
>  8      9739MB  30.6GB  20.9GB  logical   ext3              
>  9      30.6GB  41.1GB  10.5GB  logical   fat32  
>
> Starting correctly with number 1 (sdb1) then jumps to 5 (sdb5).  How can
> I rename my partitions so that they go in sequence; sdb1, sdb2, ...
> sdb6.
>
> This is simply a neatness fetish; the numbering is not presently causing
> any problems to the actual opeation of F-7.  Am I best just to leave it
> alone, or is there a simple way or program that can re-number these
> partitions? 
>   
Partitions 1-4 are primary partitions defined in the partition table in 
sector 1 of the disk.
Partitions 5 and up are logical partitions residing inside the extended 
partition.
You can't simply renumber the partitions since you'd have to pull some 
out of the extended partition. However, using something like Partition 
Magic you could possibly shrink one or more of the larger ones, create 
partitions 2-4, copy over the contents and delete some of the higher 
numbered ones.  It would take a while and not really buy you anything, 
other than the nice numbering. :-)

Jeff Voskamp




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