[arch-general] Change letters of partitions

[Axel Müller]

Am Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:23:21 -0300 schrieb Lucas Salies Brum:

> Hello everyone, I'm having a little problem.
> 
> My partitions looked like this:
> /dev/sda1 (/)
> /dev/sda2 (/home)
> /dev/sda3 (swap)
> 
> After I deleted the / partition and got this: /dev/sda1 (Windows)
> free space
> /dev/sda2 (/home)
> /dev/sda3 (swap)
> 
> And i need this:
> /dev/sda1 (Windows)
> /dev/sda2 (/)
> /dev/sda3 (/home)
> /dev/sda4 (swap)
> 
> How do I change home partition /dev/sda2 to /dev/sda3?

fdisk has a function to automatically fix the partition order depending 
on the order they are placed on disk: Hit 'x' for expert mode and than 
'f' to fix the order. Verify if it did what you want before writing the 
changes to disk.