Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Sep 2006 15:47:03 +0200 (MEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: re-reading the partition table on a "busy" drive |
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>> 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 :)
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