Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Sep 2006 10:27:18 +0200 | From | Olaf Hering <> | Subject | Re: re-reading the partition table on a "busy" drive |
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On Thu, Sep 07, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> Is it possible to implement such a feature? I mean, is it > easy to know which *partitions* (subdevices?) of the whole > device are currently in use, as opposed to the whole drive?
Its already there, see include/linux/blkpg.h parted uses this interface, fdisk and others use the rereadpt ioctl. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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