[parted-devel] keeping partitions in disk order

[Andrew Gaffney]

With libparted, is there a way to preserve disk order on the partition numbers? 
For example, if you have 1, 2, and 3, remove partition 2, and then create 2 
partitions in its place, the disk order would now be 1, 2, 4, 3.

I've been using pyparted in the Gentoo installer for partitioning. I've had to 
resort to removing all partitions, and then recreating them in the same places 
along with the modifications to preserve disk order. But this has its own 
issues. So, I'd like a way to preserve disk order without touching partitions 
that don't need to be touched.

If this feature doesn't already exist, what would it take to implement it?

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Andrew Gaffney                            http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
Gentoo Linux Developer                                   Installer Project