Re: How to rename a partition

On Nov 18, 7:53 pm, Lew Pitcher <lpitc...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bill Marcum wrote:
On 2007-11-18, Trastabuga <lisper...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I deleted a partition /dev/hda1 using fdisk and modified my fstab and
lilo so that next time /dev/hda2 becomes /dev/hda1 (so I thought). In
fact, after reboot /dev/hda2 didn't change to hda1 (as I expected) so
my question would be how can I rename /dev/hda2 to /dev/hda1. If it's
difficult I guess I can live with partitions starting with /dev/hda2
but stlll I'd like to understand why renaming is difficult and how to
reuse /dev/hda1.

The names of partitions 1-4 depend on which slot they occupy in the
partition table. Deleting a primary partition just writes zeroes in
that slot. Deleting a logical partition can rename others.

One further caveat: the partition table is not /required/ to be kept in
ascending order of partition origin, although that is the way most systems do
maintain it.

It is perfectly possible that /dev/hda1 could address the /last/ partition on
the drive, with the other, earlier, partitions being addressed as /dev/hda2
and onward.

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Lew Pitcher

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Is there any command (app) overwrite the names in the partition table?
Not that I can't live with the unsorted names, just wondering...

Thank you,
Andrew
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