Partition table entries are not in disk order
blind Pete
0123peter at gmail.com
Wed Feb 4 00:04:11 UTC 2015
Bob wrote:
> ** Reply to message from thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> on Tue, 3 Feb
> 2015 03:10:22 +0000 (UTC)
>
>> I have:
>>
>>
>> thufir at doge:~$
>> thufir at doge:~$ sudo parted -l
>> Model: ATA ST500DM002-1BD14 (scsi)
>> Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
>> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
>> Partition Table: msdos
>> Disk Flags:
>>
>> Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
>> 3 1049kB 375GB 375GB primary ext4
>> 2 375GB 475GB 100GB primary ext4 boot
>> 1 475GB 500GB 25.0GB primary linux-swap(v1)
>>
>>
>> Warning: Unable to open /dev/sr0 read-write (Read-only file system). /
>> dev/sr0
>> has been opened read-only.
>> Error: /dev/sr0: unrecognised disk label
>> Model: TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-222AL (scsi)
>> Disk /dev/sr0: 763MB
>> Sector size (logical/physical): 2048B/2048B
>> Partition Table: unknown
>> Disk Flags:
>>
>> thufir at doge:~$
>> thufir at doge:~$ sudo fdisk -l
>>
>> Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
>> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
>> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
>> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
>> Disklabel type: dos
>> Disk identifier: 0x1f3b4b3e
>>
>> Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
>> /dev/sda1 927944704 976771071 48826368 23.3G 82 Linux swap /
>> Solaris
>> /dev/sda2 * 732633088 927944703 195311616 93.1G 83 Linux
>> /dev/sda3 2048 732633087 732631040 349.4G 83 Linux
>>
>> Partition table entries are not in disk order.
>> thufir at doge:~$
>>
>>
>> How can rename the entries so that they're in disc order.
>
> From my experience you can not. gparted assigns partition numbers in the
> order
> you define them even if they are backwards. The main reason I have
> decided to use another program to partition disk drives.
>
> I do not think the error message has anything to do with the way
> partitions are
> defined on your disk. I have one system running Ubuntu with the
> partitions linked out of order without problems.
It is possible to renumber (not rename) partitions, but I recommend
against it. If there is anything that looks for /dev/sda1 and finds
/dev/sda3 it will stop working.
It is just a warning message, not an error message.
--
blind Pete
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