From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932088AbWDFGhe (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Apr 2006 02:37:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751135AbWDFGhe (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Apr 2006 02:37:34 -0400 Received: from pproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.166.179]:28882 "EHLO pproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751130AbWDFGhd convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Apr 2006 02:37:33 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=OqxNHsoXWuy5sSC2SXHrkXtH2hhjGaiQijrA1x61cjPo4YOri76rUUIiyYaT29IJesKM0KkOh0DDxvA0TqqWDrGyTQpvp3SftboNOy4+DpCAuLOYaenKJPW1b757sSUTJ/yJYT8TmbAO5M2dgjseBWu0V+QjJ3Ydz0lN99YooDI= Message-ID: <1458d9610604052337p2cafa6c8j78fc6da8c5f8be1a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 14:37:33 +0800 From: "Sumit Narayan" To: linux-kernel , ext3-users@redhat.com Subject: deleting partition does not effect superblock? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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