From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 9 18:31:56 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 423D216A418 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 18:31:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from nagual.nl (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [82.74.10.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC4CB13C474 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 18:31:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from shire.nagual.nl (shire.nagual.nl [192.168.11.31]) by nagual.nl (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/yanta) with ESMTP id m09I84we028237 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 19:08:04 +0100 (CET) Received: (from dick@localhost) by shire.nagual.nl (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/Submit) id m09I7ra5028236 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 19:07:53 +0100 (CET) From: Dick Hoogendijk Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 19:07:53 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080109180753.GA28169@shire.nagual.nl> References: <4782EEF0.80809@gmail.com> <20080108155509.GD42838@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <4783F44F.5070303@gmail.com> <20080108223305.GA48272@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <4784390E.7000906@gmail.com> <20080109160004.GB51635@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080109160004.GB51635@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 192.168.11.35 Subject: Re: changing the postion of a partion in fdisk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:31:56 -0000 On 09 Jan Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 10:01:34PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > > > I don't think you can make slice 2 become slice 1. The system > > > numbers them in order of appearance. This comes from BIOS > > > standard usage. > > 2 starts before 1 in my case?!??! I know for sure that linux fdisk gives a warning about the disk partitions not being in the right physical order. You can change the order under expert options and write it back to disk. Partition magick is know to "switch" numbers on disk. Other OS's like linux but also solaris "see" it and offer to change it back. I'm not sure about fbsd's fdisk. Too long ago. If not, try one of those knoppix live CD's -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ | Solaris 10 / XDE ++