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Re: changing partition names

From rlharris@oplink.net
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: changing partition names
Date 2016-02-14 23:10 +0100
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On Sun, February 14, 2016 2:42 pm, Frank McCormick wrote:
> 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 ?

To rename partitions, I use gnome-disk-utility.  For some operations I use
GParted.  I tend to get into trouble when using fdisk or fsdisk.

Russ

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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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