From: "Sumit Narayan" <talk2sumit@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, ext3-users@redhat.com
Subject: deleting partition does not effect superblock?
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 14:37:33 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1458d9610604052337p2cafa6c8j78fc6da8c5f8be1a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Hi,
I am using kernel 2.6.15.4.
On my system, I first created a partition with EXT3 and put some data
on it. Later, I deleted the partition, and re-created another
partition with the same starting block number and a higher ending
block number. I intended to format it with another filesystem, but
surprisingly (or maybe just to me), the superblock of the partition
had not changed. I could still mount the new partition as the same old
filesystem. I could see all the files which was present earlier. Doing
'df' showed me the older partition details (size, % used etc.).
Shouldn't the superblock be changed/deleted once the partition is
deleted? I tried a reboot, but the output remained the same.
-- Sumit
next reply other threads:[~2006-04-06 6:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-06 6:37 Sumit Narayan [this message]
2006-04-06 6:58 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-04-10 15:28 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-04-10 16:00 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-04-06 7:31 ` Damian Menscher
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