Re: [PATCH 0/2] block: online resize of disk partitions

[Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>]

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On 2/13/2012 2:30 PM, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Following patch adds support for online resizing of a partition.
> This patch is based on previously posted patches by Phillip Susi.
> 
> There are two patches. Out of which one is kernel patch and other
> one is util-linux patch to add support of a user space utility
> "resizepart" to allow resizing the partition.
> 
> This ioctl only resizes the partition size in kenrel and does not
> change the size on disk. A user needs to make sure that
> corresponding changes are made to disk data structures also using
> fdisk(or partx), if changes are to be retained across reboot.
> 
> I made some changes according to the feedback received last time.
> Following are changes since the version Phillip posted.
> 
> - RESIZE ioctl ignores the partition "start" and does not expect
> user to specify one. Caller needs to just specify "device",
> "partition number" and "size" of new partition.

I would prefer that the start argument not be left undefined.  I
checked it to make sure it was unchanged as a simple sanity check to
guard against user space being goofy, as well as to allow for the
possibility of extending the interface in the future to allow changing
the start as well as the length.

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