Messages in this thread | | | From | V13 <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Reread partition table when a partition is added | Date | Mon, 23 Aug 2004 19:14:56 +0300 |
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On Monday 23 August 2004 12:53, Andries Brouwer wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 01:19:06AM +0300, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote: > > This small patch rereads the partition table even if the block device > > is beeing used. It only rereads it when there are no changes at the > > current partitions and there are new partitions added at the end. Any > > existing partition change will/should make it fail. > > > > Is it OK and/or useful ? > > What you want is possible already today. > For an example, see partx in util-linux.
Oh! didn't new about that. Indeed it seems to be the right thing to do (tm) regarding partition handling. Util-linux does not build partx by default so I didn't notice it at all.
Thanks!
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