Partition neatness and order question ?

[Jimmy Bradley]

   If it isn't broke, don't fix it. That's my philosophy.

Jim

On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 10:57 -0700, Ted Marshall wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:34:37 -0400
> > From: William Case <billlinux at rogers.com>
> > Subject: Partition neatness and order question ?
> > To: FEDORA List <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > Message-ID: <1182270878.3257.10.camel at CASE>
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> >
> > 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?
> >
> >
> > -- 
> > Regards Bill
> 
> This one's easy. xxx1 through xxx4 are reserved for primary/extended 
> partitions.  All logical drives within the extended partitions use xxx5 and 
> on, no matter how few primary partitions there are.  Your extended partition 
> is probably sdb2.  The only way to get the partition numbering continuous is 
> to use only primary partitions (sdb1 through sdb4) and then you're limited 
> to 4 partitions, at least with standard partitioning.
> 
> Having said that, there should be no reason to worry about the partition 
> numbers, except to made things "pretty". 
> 
>