Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 09 Mar 2004 21:58:09 +0800 | From | Michael Clark <> | Subject | Re: disable partitioning! |
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On 03/09/04 20:13, Jinu M. wrote: > > Hello Stefan. > > >>We are writing a block device driver for 2.4.x kernel. >>I want to know how to indicate to the filesystem that our block driver does not support partitions. >>I mean fdisk should not be allowed on disks supported by our block driver. > > > You can run fdisk on a file if you want to, it doesn't care what type of > block device it is. What you're really asking for is a way to make the > kernel not read the partition table if it exists on the device and > that's something else. > > So then how do I stop kernel from reading the partition table?
I believe you can do this by passing 1 as the number of minors in your call to alloc_disk(int num_minors).
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