That sounds a bit dangerous - does that work by recovering the partition
structure after the partition table is changed/wiped?
Solved it this way. Created a new primary partition as wanted but in the
middle of the HDD and numbered it sda1. Get fdisk complaining about
incorrect partitions
On 23/01/2008, Vitorio Okio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've deleted with GParted unwanted Dell Utility partition sited the first
on my HDD. This partition was set as /dev/sda1, so all others followed
correspondignly: /dev/sda2, /dev/sda3, etc.
Now after deleting and booting back in Ubuntu my
These links may be of help although i personally support Kris's comments..
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=246506 (Some ideas about changing
the name for USB HD, the technique is similar for normal hard disk too)
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Partition.html ( Linux partition
Vitorio Okio wrote:
I've deleted with GParted unwanted Dell Utility partition sited the first
on my HDD. This partition was set as /dev/sda1, so all others followed
correspondignly: /dev/sda2, /dev/sda3, etc.
Now after deleting and booting back in Ubuntu my now first partition is
still
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:08:14 +, Tom Bamford wrote:
You can renumber your partitions but you'll need a live CD to do it
with. Assuming you have either backed up your entire system or you don't
care if you nuke it by accident or by means of a power cut - boot off
the live cd, then run (in a
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:08:14 +, Tom Bamford wrote:
Vitorio Okio wrote:
I've deleted with GParted unwanted Dell Utility partition sited the
first on my HDD. This partition was set as /dev/sda1, so all others
followed correspondignly: /dev/sda2, /dev/sda3, etc.
Now after deleting and
Vitorio Okio wrote:
Unfortunately it did not worked. Here is the actual output of my try.
At the first run fdisk reported partitions out of order after printing
the partition table. Then after applying 'x' and 'f' it reported that
partition order was successfully changed.
In reality
Oops, I forgot to say actually that you will need to enter 'w' in
fdisk
(whilst in the main menu) to make it write the changes to disk.
I sertainly used 'w'.
When applyed at the first time, fdisk reported something like fixed
or changes applyed, I do not rememer the exact wording.
But when I
I've deleted with GParted unwanted Dell Utility partition sited the first
on my HDD. This partition was set as /dev/sda1, so all others followed
correspondignly: /dev/sda2, /dev/sda3, etc.
Now after deleting and booting back in Ubuntu my now first partition is
still marked as /dev/sda2. And
