Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:00:52 +0200 | From | Jan-Benedict Glaw <> | Subject | Re: deleting partition does not effect superblock? |
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On Mon, 2006-04-10 17:28:18 +0200, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote: > >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.]
I'll possibly test if this works in another life...
MfG, JBG
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