Sorry if this has been discussed before but I didn't know what to search for. Basically I want the partition lables (e.g. hda1, hda2) to reflect their actual order. For example:

|---------------------------|
| hda2 | hda3 | hda 1 |
|---------------------------|

That's not my actual setup but what I would like to do is make it

|---------------------------|
| hda1 | hda2 | hda 3 |
|---------------------------|

It doesn't really effect anything, it just bugs me. Is there an easy way to do this?

Thx

Not sure what you mean, because I've never seen them listed backwards like that. My guess is it's a quirk of the application you're using, not the arrangement on the drive itself. Check it by going into the console, and typing 'df' or 'fdisk -l' as root.

For what it's worth, I can understand the annoyance, but from a hardware/kernel standpoint, naming is not inverted like that, so it's probably some preference outlined by someone with too much time on their hands. It might be easy to invert that order, even for novice programmers, if you're willing to check the source of that application.

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You might find it beneficial to (over time) learn some of the "lower level" applications, such as those listed above. They are not that easy, or intuitive, perhaps, but as you can see, neither are higher level ones. In addition to acquiring a concise understanding of how your system works, you avoid being confused by "helpful" attempts at isolating you from the intricasies of computing. Just an idea, for what it's worth.

Well what happened is I deleted a partition in the middle of the drive, that made the partitions that came after that space shift their lables down ("hda4"->"hda3"). Then I created a new partition where the old one used to be. Instead of shifting the lables of the partitions that came after back up, it gave the new partition a lable that was higher than the rest.

This happened when I was using QTparted. QTparted shows the lables in ascending order, but when I'm mounting partitions the lables are different. In Morphix's Partition Morpher, and fdisk it shows the lables the way they really are, which is messed up.

I read somewhere one time about a way to fix this but at the time I didn't have the problem so I didn't pay much attention. (Oops)

Here is the output of fdisk -l: