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From: Michael Clark <michael@metaparadigm.com>
To: "Jinu M." <jinum@esntechnologies.co.in>
Cc: Stefan Smietanowski <stesmi@stesmi.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: disable partitioning!
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 21:58:09 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <404DCD71.706@metaparadigm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1118873EE1755348B4812EA29C55A97217632E@esnmail.esntechnologies.co.in>

On 03/09/04 20:13, Jinu M. wrote:
> 
> Hello Stefan.
> 
> 
>>We are writing a block device driver for 2.4.x kernel.
>>I want to know how to indicate to the filesystem that our block driver does not support partitions.
>>I mean fdisk should not be allowed on disks supported by our block driver.
> 
> 
> You can run fdisk on a file if you want to, it doesn't care what type of
> block device it is. What you're really asking for is a way to make the
> kernel not read the partition table if it exists on the device and
> that's something else.
> 
> So then how do I stop kernel from reading the partition table?

I believe you can do this by passing 1 as the number of minors
in your call to alloc_disk(int num_minors).

~mc

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-09 13:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-09 12:13 disable partitioning! Jinu M.
2004-03-09 13:58 ` Michael Clark [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-03-09  4:52 Jinu M.
2004-03-09 10:52 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-09 14:02 ` Matthias Urlichs

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