Anyone using Paragon Partition manager 8.5? Re-numbering partitions.

Will this application re-number partitions after creation of a new partition on
the C: drive?

Thanks.

Previously Scomper <drummlinns@killin.edu.uk> wrote:
> Will this application re-number partitions after creation of a new
> partition on the C: drive?

> Thanks.

Unless it works differently from every other partition
manager I have used, it will not. And you should never
need that anyways. Under any flavour of Unix it does not
matter. Under more limited OSes like XP or Vista, you
can change drive letters.

Arno

Arno Wagner <me@privacy.net> wrote:
> Previously Scomper <drummlinns@killin.edu.uk> wrote:
>> Will this application re-number partitions after creation of a new
>> partition on the C: drive?
>
>> Thanks.
>
> Unless it works differently from every other partition
> manager I have used, it will not. And you should never
> need that anyways. Under any flavour of Unix it does not
> matter. Under more limited OSes like XP or Vista, you
> can change drive letters.
>
> Arno

Actually, Linux fdisk does have an option to re-order partitions.
IIRC, it puts the partitions in physical order in the partition table.

Jerry

Previously Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> wrote:
> Arno Wagner <me@privacy.net> wrote:
>> Previously Scomper <drummlinns@killin.edu.uk> wrote:
>>> Will this application re-number partitions after creation of a new
>>> partition on the C: drive?
>>
>>> Thanks.
>>
>> Unless it works differently from every other partition
>> manager I have used, it will not. And you should never
>> need that anyways. Under any flavour of Unix it does not
>> matter. Under more limited OSes like XP or Vista, you
>> can change drive letters.
>>
>> Arno

> Actually, Linux fdisk does have an option to re-order partitions.
> IIRC, it puts the partitions in physical order in the partition table.

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

Arno Wagner <me@privacy.net> wrote:
> Previously Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> wrote:
>> Arno Wagner <me@privacy.net> wrote:
>>> Previously Scomper <drummlinns@killin.edu.uk> wrote:
>>>> Will this application re-number partitions after creation of a new
>>>> partition on the C: drive?
>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Unless it works differently from every other partition
>>> manager I have used, it will not. And you should never
>>> need that anyways. Under any flavour of Unix it does not
>>> matter. Under more limited OSes like XP or Vista, you
>>> can change drive letters.
>>>
>>> Arno
>
>> Actually, Linux fdisk does have an option to re-order partitions.
>> IIRC, it puts the partitions in physical order in the partition table.
>
> 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

Previously Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> wrote:
> Arno Wagner <me@privacy.net> wrote:
>> Previously Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> wrote:
>>> Arno Wagner <me@privacy.net> wrote:
>>>> Previously Scomper <drummlinns@killin.edu.uk> wrote:
>>>>> Will this application re-number partitions after creation of a new
>>>>> partition on the C: drive?
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Unless it works differently from every other partition
>>>> manager I have used, it will not. And you should never
>>>> need that anyways. Under any flavour of Unix it does not
>>>> matter. Under more limited OSes like XP or Vista, you
>>>> can change drive letters.
>>>>
>>>> Arno
>>
>>> Actually, Linux fdisk does have an option to re-order partitions.
>>> IIRC, it puts the partitions in physical order in the partition table.
>>
>> 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.

Ah, that one. Not really a partition reorder tool, as it can have
only one pre-specified result. Still useful in some situations.

For general reordering, though, you can delete the partitions
and create them with the same start and end in a different order.
Parted is a better tool for that though, as fdisk is still stuck
with the C/H/S idea.

> 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.

Never needed that so far. But I keep my free space at the end, so
no need for a normalizer. Well, I learned another detail.

Arno

I'm running WinXP SP2.
When I assign letters to partitions in the making the C: is
replaced by (*). When I attempt to reassign it C is missing
from the box.

Anyone using Paragon Partition Manager 8.5 able to comment
on this.

My concern is that if C: drive has changed I will not be able
to boot in.

Scomper.