Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Apr 2004 13:39:01 +0200 | From | Erik Mouw <> | Subject | Re: Questions : disk partition re-reading |
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On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 03:24:46PM +0200, Remi Colinet wrote: > I have 2 questions about disk partitioning under linux 2.6.x : > > 1/ Is it possible to alter a disk partition of a used disk and beeing > able to use the modified partition without having to reboot the box?
"blockdev --rereadpt /dev/whatever" does the trick on 2.4.x. Didn't try it on 2.6 yet, but I don't think it changed.
> 2/ Is it possible to delete a disk partition without having the > partition numbers changed?
Yes (assuming MS-DOS style partition tables).
Erik
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