From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Cc: Linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: re-reading the partition table on a "busy" drive
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 10:27:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060908082718.GA30894@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45004707.4030703@tls.msk.ru>
On Thu, Sep 07, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> Is it possible to implement such a feature? I mean, is it
> easy to know which *partitions* (subdevices?) of the whole
> device are currently in use, as opposed to the whole drive?
Its already there, see include/linux/blkpg.h
parted uses this interface, fdisk and others use the rereadpt ioctl.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-08 8:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-07 16:21 re-reading the partition table on a "busy" drive Michael Tokarev
2006-09-08 5:55 ` Oleg Verych
2006-09-08 6:58 ` Jan Engelhardt
[not found] ` <20060908135858.GB14370@flower.upol.cz>
2006-09-08 13:34 ` Michael Tokarev
2006-09-08 13:47 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-08 14:56 ` Oleg Verych
2006-09-08 8:27 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
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