[parted-devel] keeping partitions in disk order

[leslie.polzer at gmx.net]

On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 11:14:49PM -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote:

> I traced the code down even farther to msdos_partition_enumerate() in
> libparted/labels/dos.c. I found the following code:
>
>         /* don't re-number a primary partition */ if (part->num != -1
>         && part->num <= 4) return 1;
>
> Looking around, I found something similar in sun_partition_enumerate()
> in libparted/labels/sun.c:
>
>         /* never change the partition numbers */ if (part->num != -1)
>         return 1;
>
> Anyone know why these are here?
libparted tries to preserve disk numbering as much as possible.

  Leslie

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