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From: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>
To: Remi Colinet <remi.colinet@free.fr>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Questions : disk partition re-reading
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 13:39:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040419113901.GC19397@harddisk-recovery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4082819E.10106@free.fr>

On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 03:24:46PM +0200, Remi Colinet wrote:
> I have 2 questions about disk partitioning under linux 2.6.x :
> 
> 1/ Is it possible to alter a disk partition of a used disk and beeing 
> able to use the modified partition without having to reboot the box?

"blockdev --rereadpt /dev/whatever" does the trick on 2.4.x. Didn't try
it on 2.6 yet, but I don't think it changed.

> 2/ Is it possible to delete a disk partition without having the 
> partition numbers changed?

Yes (assuming MS-DOS style partition tables).


Erik

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-04-19 11:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-18 13:24 Questions : disk partition re-reading Remi Colinet
     [not found] ` <200404181707.10467.christian.kroener@tu-harburg.de>
2004-04-18 14:40   ` Remi Colinet
2004-04-18 17:58 ` DervishD
2004-04-19  3:49 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2004-04-19 11:39 ` Erik Mouw [this message]
2004-04-19 22:37 ` Rob Couto
2004-04-20  7:46 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-04-20 14:36   ` Rogier Wolff
2004-04-25 22:15     ` Andries Brouwer
2004-04-26  8:31       ` Wichert Akkerman
2004-04-26 15:21         ` Bill Davidsen
2004-04-29  0:26           ` Andries Brouwer
2004-04-29  0:15         ` Andries Brouwer
2004-04-29  8:04           ` Wichert Akkerman

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