Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: BLKRRPART ioctl | Date | Tue, 03 Aug 1999 12:00:52 +0100 | From | David Woodhouse <> |
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tytso@mit.edu said: > Or if you moved the start or end points of the partition!
If you move the start, OK. Moving the end is allowed as long as you make sure you resize the filesystem before actually clobbering it.
> Maybe the correct solution would be to make the kernel check > whether we're changing any partitions that are in use - and only > decline to re-read the table in that case.
tytso@mit.edu said: > This is probably the right long-term strategy.
I'd prefer that the kernel refused to reload the partition table iff the _start_ of any in-use partition has changed, rather than either end of the partition.
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