On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 09:36:41AM -0600, Curtis Gedak wrote: > Joel Granados wrote: >> Hello list. >> >> The question is: why does parted call renumber partition funcion every >> time it removes/deletes a partition? > Hi Joel, > > Perhaps it has something to do with MSDOS partition tables and logical > partitions? > > When a logical partition is deleted, it affects the partition numbers of > each logical partition that follow in the chain. > > For example, an extended partition contains four logical partitions A, > B, C, and D. These logical partitions are accessed by the operating > system as follows: > > * Partition A as /dev/sda5. > * Partition B as /dev/sda6. > * Partition C as /dev/sda7. > * Partition D as /dev/sda8. > > If partition B is deleted, then the remaining logical partitions will be > accessed by the operating system as follows:
Yes, but this is due to parted renumbering. That is, if parted did not renumber the partitions, the OS would access the partitions as sda5 sda7 sda8. > > * Partition A as /dev/sda5. > * Partition C as /dev/sda6. Note the change in device name. > * Partition D as /dev/sda7. Note the change in device name. > > This is just a guess since I haven't looked into the renumber partition > function. :-) > > Regards, > Curtis Gedak > > _______________________________________________ > parted-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel -- Joel Andres Granados Brno, Czech Republic, Red Hat. _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
