Re: changing partition names

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. it can get a situation where the partitions are not in the number orde, and some fdisks complain about

Re: changing partition names

On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 22:33:23 -0500 Frank McCormick wrote: > On 14/02/16 07:56 PM, Charlie Kravetz wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 19:11:37 -0500 > > Frank McCormick wrote: > > > >> On

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

Re: changing partition names

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

Re: changing partition names

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

Re: changing partition names

On Monday 15 February 2016 20:05:53 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??? ;-) Lisi

Re: changing partition names

Felix Miata a écrit : > Pascal Hambourg composed on 2016-02-15 20:52 (UTC+0100): > >>> be warned, if you use the partition table edit solution, uuid changes >>> each time you touch a partition. > >> No, UUID don't change unless you change the contents of a partition. >> They are not in the

Re: changing partition names

Frank McCormick a écrit : > I have deleted a partition from my HD containing a distro I no longer use. > As a result, my partitions on /dev/sda are numbered sda1. sda2 (windows) > and sda4. sda3 contained the distro I dumped. > > Can I just use fdisk or fsdisk to dump the existing partition

Re: changing partition names

Pascal Hambourg composed on 2016-02-15 20:52 (UTC+0100): >> be warned, if you use the partition table edit solution, uuid changes >> each time you touch a partition. > No, UUID don't change unless you change the contents of a partition. > They are not in the partition table. Same with labels.

Re: changing partition names

jdd a écrit : > > be warned, if you use the partition table edit solution, uuid changes > each time you touch a partition. No, UUID don't change unless you change the contents of a partition. They are not in the partition table. Same with labels.

Re: changing partition names

Le 15/02/2016 17:51, Frank McCormick a écrit : I already use UUIDS. be warned, if you use the partition table edit solution, uuid changes each time you touch a partition. The better way may be to use labels, but I don't know if they survive partition change, probably not. No

Re: changing partition names

On 15/02/16 05:49 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 03:42:33PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: I have deleted a partition from my HD containing a distro I no longer use. As a result, my partitions on /dev/sda are numbered sda1. sda2 (windows) and sda4. sda3 contained the distro

Re: changing partition names

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 10:49:29AM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: [...] > If the now-spare sda3 was large enough, and you were not already using LVM, > I'd > recommend formatting sda3 as an LVM PV and create a new LVM VG, then an LVM > LV; > then

Re: changing partition names

On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 03:42:33PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > I have deleted a partition from my HD containing a distro I no longer use. > As a result, my partitions on /dev/sda are numbered sda1. sda2 (windows) and > sda4. sda3 contained the distro I dumped. > > Can I just use fdisk or

Re: changing partition names

On 14/02/16 07:49 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Frank McCormick composed on 2016-02-14 15:42 (UTC-0500): I have deleted a partition from my HD containing a distro I no longer use. What motivated doing so? What exactly was/were your goal(s) in doing so? To put the 15 gigs of space to better use :)

Re: changing partition names

On 14/02/16 07:56 PM, Charlie Kravetz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 19:11:37 -0500 Frank McCormick wrote: On 14/02/16 05:00 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Sun, February 14, 2016 2:42 pm, Frank McCormick wrote: Can I

Re: changing partition names

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 19:11:37 -0500 Frank McCormick wrote: >On 14/02/16 05:00 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: >> On Sun, February 14, 2016 2:42 pm, Frank McCormick wrote: >>> Can I just use fdisk or fsdisk to dump the

Re: changing partition names

Frank McCormick composed on 2016-02-14 15:42 (UTC-0500): > I have deleted a partition from my HD containing a distro I no longer use. What motivated doing so? What exactly was/were your goal(s) in doing so? > As a result, my partitions on /dev/sda are numbered sda1. sda2 (windows) > and sda4.

Re: changing partition names

On 14/02/16 05:00 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Sun, February 14, 2016 2:42 pm, Frank McCormick wrote: Can I just use fdisk or fsdisk to dump the existing partition record edit the file to change sda4 to sda3 and then use fdisk or sfdisk to read the file and create a properly named

Re: changing partition names

On Sun, February 14, 2016 2:42 pm, Frank McCormick wrote: > Can I just use fdisk or fsdisk to dump the existing partition record > edit the file to change sda4 to sda3 and then use fdisk or sfdisk to read > the file and create a properly named partition record ? To rename partitions, I use