Messages in this thread |  | | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Date | Mon, 26 Aug 2002 16:02:38 -0600 | Subject | Re: updating the partition table of a busy drive |
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On Aug 27, 2002 00:52 +0300, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > Currently, any change to a partition table of a busy drive is > practically delayed to the next reboot. Even things trivial as > changing the type of an unmounted partition do not work, if > another partition on that drive is mounted (or swapped to, etc.). > > On a side note, about a year and a half ago, there was a thread > on lkml with the subject 'Partition IDs in the New World TM', in > which a 'parttab' file was mentioned. I grepped and STFWed a lot, > and could not find any relevant mention anywhere, besides this > thread. Is this parttab implemented? Documented? Perhaps under > a different name? Is this case it is quite hard to find > (google search for 'linux parttab' has 37 results, but for > e.g. 'linux partition table initrd' 11400 results).
Please see partx (util-linux) and/or GNU parted for tools which can change partitions on mounted disks. I believe the kernel has supported this since 2.4.0, but not many tools do.
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
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