Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:00:52 +0200 | | From | Jan-Benedict Glaw <> | | Subject | Re: deleting partition does not effect superblock? | |
On Mon, 2006-04-10 17:28:18 +0200, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote:
> >deleted) or otherwise modified. So it's perfectly okay to delete such
> >a container (eg. remove start and end from the partition table) and
> >recreate it at some time later (by adding those values back to the
> >partition table.) As long as the new container starts at the same
> >location, a filesystem driver will be able to find the old
> >information. If you start a block later, it won't find it's
> >superblocks.
> >
> If using a filesystem with replicated superblocks (ext*, xfs), then ...?
> [Includes expecting weird breakage.]
I'll possibly test if this works in another life...
MfG, JBG
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