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Subject: RE: disable partitioning!
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Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 17:43:38 +0530
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From: "Jinu M." <jinum@esntechnologies.co.in>
To: "Stefan Smietanowski" <stesmi@stesmi.com>
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Hello Stefan.

> We are writing a block device driver for 2.4.x kernel.
> I want to know how to indicate to the filesystem that our block driver does not support partitions.
> I mean fdisk should not be allowed on disks supported by our block driver.

You can run fdisk on a file if you want to, it doesn't care what type of
block device it is. What you're really asking for is a way to make the
kernel not read the partition table if it exists on the device and
that's something else.

So then how do I stop kernel from reading the partition table?

-Jinu

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