Arno Wagner said:
Are you sure about this option? It is not listed in the man-page or
the online help. As far as I know Linux fdisk has no option
to manipulate existing partitions at all, besides making them active
and changing their type.
As to the physical order, it is no problem to create partitions in
an other order with Linux fdisk.
Arno
Go into expert mode with x, it's option f - fix. It re-numbers logical
disks in the extended partition to be physical order.
I just happened to use it earlier today, BTW. I'm in the process of
upgrading from Slackware 11 to 12.1 and needed to add some partitions
to this laptop's HD for the new system.
I have an alternate root partition at the physical end of the disk
with empty space before it. Used that and some space freed up by
deleting 2 empty partitions. This left the partition ordering
confusing, so I used the fix option to get them in a more useful
order. Then ahd to fix fstab, of course.
Jerry