Re: partitioning mounted devs?!?

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
14 Oct 1998 16:58:46 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.A41.3.95.981014082431.17942A-100000@stud2.tuwien.ac.at>
By author: Peter-Paul Witta <e9525748@student.tuwien.ac.at>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> >
> > > hi!
> > > why can i delete MOUNTED partitions?
> >
> > If you mean
> >
> > mount -t ext2 /dev/hda4 /usr
> > rm /dev/hda4
>
> nope, i meant
>
> mount -t ext2 /dev/hda4 /mnt
> fdisk
> p
> d
> 4
> w
> q
> (print p-table, delete partition 4, write, wuit). imo either the kernel or
> fdisk could check if the partition is mounted...
>
> regards,
> paul.
>

Because the partition is mounted, the disk is busy (in use). Because
the disk is in use, all partition changes are delayed, and will
usually take effect only after reboot.

-hpa

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