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DateMon, 16 Oct 2006 08:02:27 +0200
FromAndries Brouwer <>
SubjectRe: Why aren't partitions limited to fit within the device?
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 09:50:15AM +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Sunday October 15, vherva@vianova.fi wrote:

> > I wonder if there's ever a change the kernel partition detection code could
> > _write_ on the disk, even when there's really no partition table?
> 
> No, kernel partition detection never writes.

There is something else that writes, however, that I have gotten complaints about.
(But I have not investigated.)
People doing forensics take a copy of a disk and want to preserve
that copy as-is, never changing a single bit, only looking at it.
But it is reported that also when a partition is mounted read-only,
the journaling code of ext3 will write to the journal.

Andries
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