[parted-devel] keeping partitions in disk order

[Andrew Gaffney]

Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> 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?

Anyone? I'm not the only one wanting to know about this.

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