From: V13 <v13@priest.com>
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
Cc: rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reread partition table when a partition is added
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 19:14:56 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200408231915.01591.v13@priest.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040823095318.GB2682@pclin040.win.tue.nl>
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On Monday 23 August 2004 12:53, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 01:19:06AM +0300, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote:
> > This small patch rereads the partition table even if the block device
> > is beeing used. It only rereads it when there are no changes at the
> > current partitions and there are new partitions added at the end. Any
> > existing partition change will/should make it fail.
> >
> > Is it OK and/or useful ?
>
> What you want is possible already today.
> For an example, see partx in util-linux.
Oh! didn't new about that. Indeed it seems to be the right thing to do (tm)
regarding partition handling. Util-linux does not build partx by default so I
didn't notice it at all.
Thanks!
> Andries
<<V13>>
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-22 22:19 [PATCH] Reread partition table when a partition is added Stefanos Harhalakis
2004-08-23 9:53 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-08-23 16:14 ` V13 [this message]
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