Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Thu, 6 Apr 2006 14:37:33 +0800 | From | "Sumit Narayan" <> | Subject | deleting partition does not effect superblock? |
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Hi,
I am using kernel 2.6.15.4.
On my system, I first created a partition with EXT3 and put some data on it. Later, I deleted the partition, and re-created another partition with the same starting block number and a higher ending block number. I intended to format it with another filesystem, but surprisingly (or maybe just to me), the superblock of the partition had not changed. I could still mount the new partition as the same old filesystem. I could see all the files which was present earlier. Doing 'df' showed me the older partition details (size, % used etc.).
Shouldn't the superblock be changed/deleted once the partition is deleted? I tried a reboot, but the output remained the same.
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