Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 27 Aug 2002 23:14:55 +0200 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: updating the partition table of a busy drive |
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On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 12:52:54AM +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.).
The type of a partition has no significance to the kernel. So how can you say that changing the type doesnt work?
There are ioctls to tell a running kernel where you would like to see partitions, entirely independent of the current disk contents.
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