From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Yedidyah Bar-David <didi@tau.ac.il>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: updating the partition table of a busy drive
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 23:14:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020827211455.GA7081@win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020827005254.A20617@soul.math.tau.ac.il>
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 12:52:54AM +0300, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
> Currently, any change to a partition table of a busy drive is
> practically delayed to the next reboot. Even things trivial as
> changing the type of an unmounted partition do not work, if
> another partition on that drive is mounted (or swapped to, etc.).
The type of a partition has no significance to the kernel.
So how can you say that changing the type doesnt work?
There are ioctls to tell a running kernel where you would like
to see partitions, entirely independent of the current disk contents.
Andries
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-27 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-26 21:52 Yedidyah Bar-David
2002-08-26 22:02 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-08-26 23:02 ` Yedidyah Bar-David
2002-08-27 21:14 ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
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