Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Apr 2006 17:28:18 +0200 (MEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: deleting partition does not effect superblock? |
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>deleted) or otherwise modified. So it's perfectly okay to delete such >a container (eg. remove start and end from the partition table) and >recreate it at some time later (by adding those values back to the >partition table.) As long as the new container starts at the same >location, a filesystem driver will be able to find the old >information. If you start a block later, it won't find it's >superblocks. > If using a filesystem with replicated superblocks (ext*, xfs), then ...? [Includes expecting weird breakage.]
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