Re: Questions : disk partition re-reading

[Andries Brouwer]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 04:36:35PM +0200, Rogier Wolff wrote:
...
> then there is a problem and I can understand "Busy".  But if the new
> scheme is: 
> 
> 	<hda1> swap 1G  
> 	<hda2> root 19G   (active)
>       <hda3> data 20G   <unformatted>
> 
> then I don't understand the reason for refusing the rereadpt request.
> 
> Anybody want to code this up?

The answer is always the same: it exists and is called partx.

Maybe you want to move part of its functionality into the kernel,
but there is no good reason.
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