Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add partition resize function to BLKPG ioctl

From: Phillip Susi
Date: Thu Dec 08 2011 - 11:34:13 EST


On 12/8/2011 7:30 AM, Karel Zak wrote:
It seems very close to Vivek's BLKPG_EXTEND_PARTITION idea, see:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/9/1/351

It's evident that we (userspace) need something better than
BLKPG_{ADD,DEL}_* and BLKRRPART, but no response from kernel side :-(

Yes, this looks very similar to mine, except that I also wanted to allow shrinking the partition, not just extending, since btrfs can handle this ( tested ).

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