[SOLVED] Removing Front Partition

hkothari · 03-20-2010, 08:55 AM

So I was dual booting slackware and windows, set up like this:
windows was /dev/sda2
slackware was /dev/sda3
Now I'm getting rid of my windows partition and I was wondering, will this mess up my slackware system? Will it become /dev/sda2 and everything break? Or will it remain intact? Thanks.

GazL · 03-20-2010, 09:43 AM

The numbers won't change when you delete a primary partition. 1-4. If I remember rightly though, if you get rid of a logical partition (no 5 upwards) subsequent logical partitions will renumber.

You can use UUID= or LABEL= in your /etc/fstab to avoid these sorts of problem.

TSquaredF · 03-20-2010, 09:50 AM

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GazL: You can use UUID= or LABEL= in your /etc/fstab to avoid these sorts of problem.

Since 13.0, you can use "root=LABEL=whatever" in the lilo/grub configuration file as well. Very handy. (Thanks again, Eric.)
Regards,
Bill

hkothari · 03-20-2010, 10:34 AM

Ok, thank you all.