Messages in this thread |  | | From | Rainer Krienke <> | Subject | 2.4.18: Re-read table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy - error | Date | Wed, 18 Sep 2002 08:51:10 +0200 |
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Hello,
I am Ruinning a (SuSE patched) 2.4.18 kernel and encountered the fdisk repartition problem mentioned above. I know that I could solve the problem by rebooting but I am interested if this is really needed since in my case a data recovery job was finally killed after 12 hours because there was not enough RAM or SWAP. I saw already very early that there could be a problem with swap and there was enough unpartitioned disk space to add swap, but the kernel would not let me.
What I did was to add a partition on a disk that has other mounted (e.g. root) partitions on it. I did not change the numbering or positions of any of the partitions in use.The new partition was simply added after all existing partitions. So the question is why does the kernel deny to reread the partiton table and force me to reboot instaed of simply doing the reread? Are there any good reasons for this "bad" behaviour?
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