Does deleting a partition below Ubuntu mess up grub?

[William Scott Lockwood III]

On Oct 12, 2014 8:16 AM, "Colin Law" <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I want to delete a partition (sda4) which is below the Ubuntu
> partition (sda5).  I seem to remember when I did something similar
> some time ago that it messed up grub and the machine would not boot,
> due to the fact that the sda numbers changed when the partition was
> deleted.  Is that still the case, and if so is there a procedure for
> deleting sda4 that will not cause such problems?  This is Ubuntu
> 12.04.
>
> Cheers
>
> Colin
>
> --

Mount by UUID rather than device name. Also, there are tools that help you
do this in a sane manor. Any of the gui partition managers should do,this
just fine.
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