From: BitTwister@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 15:57:33 -0400, bad sector wrote:   
   > On 04/25/2017 03:22 PM, Bit Twister wrote:   
   >> On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 13:01:47 -0400, bad sector wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> . Bottom   
   >>> line being that I wanna see the order of partitions followed by a handle   
   >>   
   >> I have not been following this thread, but do you know if your   
   >> partition numbers are in numerical order?   
   >>   
   >   
   > I cut my disks like so   
   >   
   > Device     Boot      Start        End    Sectors  Size   
   > /dev/sda1  *          2048  104859647  104857600   50G   
   > /dev/sda2        104859648  209717247  104857600   50G   
   > /dev/sda3        209717248  314574847  104857600   50G   
   > /dev/sda4        314576894 3900000001 3585423108  1.7T   
   > /dev/sda5        314576896  322965503    8388608    4G   
   > /dev/sda6        322967552  427825151  104857600   50G   
   > /dev/sda7        427827200  532684799  104857600   50G   
   > /dev/sda8        532686848  637544447  104857600   50G   
   > /dev/sda9        637546496  742404095  104857600   50G   
   > /dev/sda10       742406144  847263743  104857600   50G   
   > /dev/sda11       847265792  952123391  104857600   50G   
   > /dev/sda12       952125440 1056983039  104857600   50G   
   > /dev/sda13      1056985088 1161842687  104857600   50G   
   > /dev/sda14      1161844736 3900000001 2738155266  1.3T   
   >   
   > nice and linear because I'm easy to confuse   
      
   Ok, just wondering if maybe you had deleted/created partitions in the   
   middle somewhere which gets them out of order.   
      
   >   
   >   
   > Except for transient turbulence like these   
   > days the setup is pretty stable and I know   
   > by heart what's where so I only need the   
   > partition number in the menu. The OS name   
   > helps because half the time I have no idea   
   > what version of XYZ may be aboard.   
      
   I hear that. That is why I use media and partition labels on all my   
   partitions. Makes my fstab/grub2/backup/restore contents/scripts  a   
   bit more straight forward.   
      
   Having vmlinuz and initrd.img always pointing to latest kernel install   
   does not hurt either when rolling your own grub2 menu.   
      
   examples   
   $ grep /mg /etc/fstab   
   LABEL=mga6 /mga6 ext4 users,noauto,relatime,acl 1 2   
   LABEL=mga5 /mga5 ext4 users,noauto,relatime,acl 1 2   
   LABEL=mga4 /mga4 ext4 users,noauto,relatime,acl 1 2   
      
   $ gdisk -l /dev/sda | grep mga   
      1            2048        83888127   40.0 GiB    8300  mga6   
      2        83888128       171864063   42.0 GiB    8300  mga4   
      3       171864064       257384447   40.8 GiB    8300  mga5   
      
      
   Snippet from grub.cfg   
      
   menuentry "mga4" {   
   	insmod regexp   
   	insmod part_gpt   
   	insmod gzio   
   	insmod ext2   
   	search --no-floppy --label --set=root mga4   
   	linux  /boot/vmlinuz-desktop root=LABEL=mga4  noiswmd   ipv6.disable=1   
   audit=0 vga=795   
   	initrd /boot/initrd-desktop.img   
   }   
   menuentry "mga5" {   
   	insmod regexp   
   	insmod part_gpt   
   	insmod gzio   
   	insmod ext2   
   	search --no-floppy --label --set=root mga5   
   	linux  /boot/vmlinuz-desktop root=LABEL=mga5  noiswmd  nokmsboot   
   ipv6.disable=1 audit=0 vga=795   
   	initrd /boot/initrd-desktop.img   
   }   
   menuentry "mga6" {   
   	insmod regexp   
   	insmod part_gpt   
   	insmod gzio   
   	insmod ext2   
   	search --no-floppy --label --set=root mga6   
   	linux  /boot/vmlinuz-desktop root=LABEL=mga6  noiswmd   ipv6.disable=1   
   audit=0 vga=795   
   	initrd /boot/initrd-desktop.img   
   }   
   ### END /etc/grub.d/10a_label_xx__grub ###   
      
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