Does deleting a partition below Ubuntu mess up grub?

[blind Pete]

William Scott Lockwood III wrote:

> 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.

UUID works well, but LABEL is *much* more human friendly.  

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