Partition neatness and order question ?
William Case
billlinux at rogers.com
Tue Jun 19 16:51:58 UTC 2007
Jeff thanks for the quick response;
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 12:49 -0400, Jeff Voskamp wrote:
[snip]
> 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
>
OK, Jeff, I can live with the numbers as they are.
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Regards Bill
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