If you move the start, OK. Moving the end is allowed as long as you make sure
you resize the filesystem before actually clobbering it.
> Maybe the correct solution would be to make the kernel check
> whether we're changing any partitions that are in use - and only
> decline to re-read the table in that case.
tytso@mit.edu said:
> This is probably the right long-term strategy.
I'd prefer that the kernel refused to reload the partition table iff the
_start_ of any in-use partition has changed, rather than either end of the
partition.
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