AFAIK you can't without repartitioning the drive. The devices are typically named based on their creation order. It won't do any damage to create the root partition as /dev/sda4 On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Lucas Salies Brum <lucas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Hello everyone, I'm having a little problem. > > My partitions looked like this: > /dev/sda1 (/) > /dev/sda2 (/home) > /dev/sda3 (swap) > > After I deleted the / partition and got this: > /dev/sda1 (Windows) > free space > /dev/sda2 (/home) > /dev/sda3 (swap) > > And i need this: > /dev/sda1 (Windows) > /dev/sda2 (/) > /dev/sda3 (/home) > /dev/sda4 (swap) > > How do I change home partition /dev/sda2 to /dev/sda3? > > Thank you all. > --- > Lucas Saliés Brum > http://sistematico.org > lsbrum @ irc.freenode.org >
