From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265887AbUHWQ2z (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Aug 2004 12:28:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266170AbUHWQWz (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Aug 2004 12:22:55 -0400 Received: from ppp1-adsl-170.the.forthnet.gr ([193.92.232.170]:24871 "EHLO ppp1-100.the.forthnet.gr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265887AbUHWQPc (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Aug 2004 12:15:32 -0400 From: V13 To: Andries Brouwer Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reread partition table when a partition is added Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 19:14:56 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 Cc: rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200408230119.12878.v13@priest.com> <20040823095318.GB2682@pclin040.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <20040823095318.GB2682@pclin040.win.tue.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2966970.rxEKs3jUU5"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200408231915.01591.v13@priest.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nextPart2966970.rxEKs3jUU5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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)= =20 regarding partition handling. Util-linux does not build partx by default so= I=20 didn't notice it at all. Thanks! > Andries <> --nextPart2966970.rxEKs3jUU5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBBKhgFVEjwdyuhmSoRAtTuAJ9jtm8udACnG0TsjbodWxjU9x89hACgkUHi 0FP6g3nUS/72K7UcnxwJ2tI= =EoS+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2966970.rxEKs3jUU5--