[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#585428: gnome-disk-utility: Deleted partition causes partitions with higher numbers to be renamed as n-1

[anne]

Package: gnome-disk-utility
Version: 2.30.1-1
Severity: normal

I used Disk Utility to remove /dev/sda5 partition, and all partitions with
higher numbers have been renamed starting from 5 instead of 6. All these
partitions belong to Debian install. Consequently GRUB set the wrong root and
/etc/fstab contained wrong partition numbers.
Other tools like gparted and fdisk didn't allow me to remove that partition.

this is the new partition table, from fdisk:

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        3060    24579040+  a5  FreeBSD
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3            3061       19457   131708902+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda5   *        3061        5610    20482812   83  Linux
/dev/sda6            5611        6247     5116671   83  Linux
/dev/sda7            6248        6566     2562336   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8            6567       15633    72830646   83  Linux

i don't have the older, but all partitions >= sda5 were numbered from 6 and
there was sda5 after swap.
Let me know how I can provide more info.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (650, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-disk-utility depends on:
ii  libatasmart4          0.17+git20100219-1 ATA S.M.A.R.T. reading and parsing
ii  libatk1.0-0           1.30.0-1           The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libavahi-client3      0.6.25-3           Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common3      0.6.25-3           Avahi common library
ii  libavahi-glib1        0.6.25-3           Avahi glib integration library
ii  libavahi-ui0          0.6.25-3           Avahi GTK+ User interface library
ii  libc6                 2.10.2-6           Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2             1.8.8-2            The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3           1.2.24-1           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2      0.86-1             simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1        2.8.0-2.1          generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6          2.3.11-1           FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgdu-gtk0           2.30.1-1           GTK+ standard dialog library for l
ii  libgdu0               2.30.1-1           GObject based Disk Utility Library
ii  libglib2.0-0          2.24.1-1           The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0     2.30.1-1           GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgtk2.0-0           2.20.1-1           The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnautilus-extension 2.30.1-1           libraries for nautilus components 
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify 0.4.5-1            sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libpango1.0-0         1.26.2-1           Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libunique-1.0-0       1.1.6-1            Library for writing single instanc
ii  libx11-6              2:1.3.3-3          X11 client-side library
ii  zlib1g                1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3   compression library - runtime

gnome-disk-utility recommends no packages.

gnome-disk-utility suggests no packages.

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