Hi; I want to renumber my partitions with fdisk -- I think -- but I would like to double check with someone before I blow everything up. I use Fedora which has a fresh install about every six months. I am getting things cleaned up ready for installing Fedora 9. A couple of versions ago Fedora wanted to install LVM. I fought it off valiantly, but ended up with ]# fdisk /dev/sdb Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdb: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4998 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x3bd704c9 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 2 4998 40138402+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sdb5 * 2 11 80293+ 83 Linux /dev/sdb6 12 164 1228941 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdb7 165 1184 8193118+ 83 Linux /dev/sdb8 1185 3723 20394486 83 Linux /dev/sdb9 3724 4998 10241406 b W95 FAT32 You will notice sdb1 jumps to sdb5. This has worked fine for two or three subsequent versions. But the time has now come to correct the partition number (for neatness if nothing else) before installing Fedora 9. fdisk, x, p prints the following: Disk /dev/sdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4998 cylinders Nr AF Hd Sec Cyl Hd Sec Cyl Start Size ID 1 00 0 1 1 254 63 1023 16065 80276805 0f 2 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 3 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 4 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 5 80 1 1 1 254 63 10 63 160587 83 6 00 1 1 11 254 63 163 63 2457882 82 7 00 1 1 164 254 63 1023 63 16386237 83 8 00 254 63 1023 254 63 1023 63 40788972 83 9 00 1 1 1023 254 63 1023 63 20482812 0b I would like to remove partitions 2,3 and 4 and renumber using fdisk x, f. I would do it from a rescue disk. Is this the proper way to go about doing this; and if so, how would I delete partitions 2,3 and 4? -- Regards Bill