How to change partition number

Fri Oct 27 16:59:03 UTC 2006

On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 17:25:45 +0200,
  Giuseppe Giannuzzi <beppeg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> there is a way to change the partition number without loss of data?
> For instance, I would change the /dev/sda1 to /dev/sda2 for /boot partition.

What are you really trying to do? Fedora allows you to map partitions to
paths based on partition labels and that may be a better solution for you.