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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Rohit Hassan Sathyanarayan <rohit.hs@samsung.com>
Cc: v.dalal@samsung.com, 'Tim Cussins' <timcussins@eml.cc>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: RE: Is repartitioning possible while one of the partitions is mounted?
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:17:27 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1283159847.12995.28.camel@brekeke> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001cb4821$3d913c00$b8b3b400$%hs@samsung.com>

On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 14:26 +0530, Rohit Hassan Sathyanarayan wrote:
> Hi Artem
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: linux-mtd-bounces@lists.infradead.org [mailto:linux-mtd-bounces@lists.infradead.org] On Behalf
> > Of Artem Bityutskiy
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 1:35 PM
> > To: Tim Cussins
> > Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
> > Subject: Re: Is repartitioning possible while one of the partitions is mounted?
> > 
> > On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 14:32 +0100, Tim Cussins wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I just spotted post regarding upcoming Runtime Partitioning Support
> > > (http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2010-July/031200.html)
> > >
> > > After taking a cursory glance at the patch it's not immediately obvious
> > > ( uh, to me anyway :D ) whether you can create/delete partitions while
> > > a filesystem (e.g. rootfs) is mounted from another partition on the same
> > > mtd device.
> > >
> > > Under what conditions can you create/delete partitions?
> > 
> > I guess it is good idea to put the authors of that patch in CC, no?
> > 
> > I think this case should be handled. If it is not, the solution is not
> > very good. But this is just IMHO.
> > 
> Its possible to partition/delete/resize the other partitions of the device even
> if rootfs is mounted on one partition.
> The utility even gives freedom to change the permissions of the partitions and 
> merging adjacent partitions apart from above features.

Why the merge operation is needed? Why is it better than delete + delete
+ create? I also sent you another e-mail with questions + some review.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)

      reply	other threads:[~2010-08-30  9:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-02 13:32 Is repartitioning possible while one of the partitions is mounted? Tim Cussins
2010-08-03  5:27 ` Rohit Hassan Sathyanarayan
2010-08-24  8:04 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-08-24  8:05   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-08-30  8:56   ` Rohit Hassan Sathyanarayan
2010-08-30  9:17     ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]

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