Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.med...@gmail.com> writes: > Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.med...@gmail.com> writes: > >> After resizing a partition on my hard disk, partition numbering changed and >> now number 7 comes before and number 6 comes after: >> >> Model: ATA SAMSUNG MP0402H (scsi) >> Disk /dev/sda: 40.1GB >> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B >> Partition Table: msdos >> Disk Flags: >> >> Number Start End Size Type File system Flags >> 1 32.3kB 8390MB 8390MB primary fat32 boot >> 2 8390MB 40.1GB 31.7GB extended lba >> 5 8390MB 9434MB 1045MB logical linux-swap(v1) >> 7 9434MB 26.2GB 16.8GB logical ext3 >> 6 26.2GB 40.1GB 13.8GB logical ext3 >> >> Is it possible, and how?, to correct that and change back 7 with 6? >> Googling around found no solution. > > I found this article: > > > http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/18752/change-the-number-of-the-partition-from-sda1-to-sda2/18759#18759 > > According to it, I did: > > # sfdisk -d /dev/sda > myfile > > and edited sda.bkp my way. Then, > > # sfdisk --no-reread -f /dev/sda < myfile > > . Then I edited /etc/fstab properly and rebooted. But then I had to rescue > the system: from a Debian installation disk, in rescue mode, from the boot > partition, I did: > > # grub-install /dev/sda > > , then rebooted and now it seems ok. Maybe I had to give the last command > before rebooting the first time.
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