Messages in this thread | | | From | Oleg Verych <> | Subject | Re: re-reading the partition table on a "busy" drive | Date | Fri, 08 Sep 2006 16:56:19 +0200 |
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Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>>My anwser to this question: if it's so "pretty annoying", just let it be >>>"yes, do as i said !", not more and not less, just most ;). >> >>Well, this whole question is already moot, as pointed out by Olaf. >>Because kernel already supports add/delete single partition ioctls, >>which is sufficient. For my needs I already wrote a tiny hack which >>compares /proc/partitions with the output of `sfdisk -d' and re-adds >>anything which changed. It should be possible to do the same with >>parted instead of {sf,cf,f}disk without using that hack, but hell, >>all those fdisks (parted included) sucks badly, each in its own way, >>so all are being used for different parts of the task, including the >>hack ;) > > > So something should write the perfect utility. There are people on this > list capable of this, like we have seen with git :)
As far as i can see, most of such was actually started by Linus, including linux.....
> Jan Engelhardt
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