changing partition names

From	Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	changing partition names
Date	2016-02-14 21:50 +0100
Message-ID	<r2bMe-7Rl-17@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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I have deleted a partition from my HD containing a distro I no longer use.
As a result, my partitions on /dev/sda are numbered sda1. sda2 (windows) 
and sda4. sda3 contained the distro I dumped.

Can I just use fdisk or fsdisk to dump the existing partition record
edit the file to change sda4 to sda3 and then use fdisk or sfdisk to
read the file and create a properly named partition record ?

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changing partition names Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca> - 2016-02-14 21:50 +0100
  Re: changing partition names rlharris@oplink.net - 2016-02-14 23:10 +0100
    Re: changing partition names Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca> - 2016-02-15 01:20 +0100
      Re: changing partition names Charlie Kravetz <cjk@teamcharliesangels.com> - 2016-02-15 03:00 +0100
        Re: changing partition names Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca> - 2016-02-15 04:40 +0100
          Re: changing partition names Adam Wilson <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2016-02-16 07:50 +0100
  Re: changing partition names Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-02-15 02:00 +0100
    Re: changing partition names Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca> - 2016-02-15 04:50 +0100
  Re: changing partition names Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2016-02-15 11:50 +0100
    Re: changing partition names <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-02-15 12:50 +0100
    Re: changing partition names Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca> - 2016-02-15 18:00 +0100
      Re: changing partition names jdd <jdd@dodin.org> - 2016-02-15 18:50 +0100
        Re: changing partition names Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-02-15 21:00 +0100
          Re: changing partition names Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-02-15 21:10 +0100
            Re: changing partition names Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-02-15 21:20 +0100
  Re: changing partition names Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-02-15 21:10 +0100
    Re: changing partition names Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-02-16 00:20 +0100
      Re: changing partition names Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-02-16 00:40 +0100
        Re: changing partition names Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca> - 2016-02-16 01:30 +0100
          Re: changing partition names Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-02-16 04:40 +0100
        Re: changing partition names jdd <jdd@dodin.org> - 2016-02-16 08:50 +0100

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