Re: recreate the partition table

[Andrew Clausen]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 10:13:37PM +0300, address@hidden wrote:
> I have the following partition table issue:
> 
> "fdisk -l" outputs that "Partition table entries are not in disk order"
>
> I want to recreate the partition table.

Why?

> Questions:
> 1. can I do this from within the OS on hard disk or should I boot with 
> a, e.g., floppy disk?
> (that is, can the partitions be mounted while I edit the partition table?)

Better do it from a floppy.

> 2. Is the procedure as simple as
> a) note the reported values of "fdisk -l" (or parted)
> b) delete all partition entries
> c) use the recover option of parted (or manually do the same thing).

Yeah, although sfdisk is probably easier.
However, if you have logical partitions, you might not be able to
reorder the partitions...

I don't see any point to any of this though.  Are you having problems?

Cheers,
Andrew