Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264170AbUDROXO (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Apr 2004 10:23:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264173AbUDROXO (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Apr 2004 10:23:14 -0400 Received: from postfix4-1.free.fr ([213.228.0.62]:9682 "EHLO postfix4-1.free.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264170AbUDROXN (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Apr 2004 10:23:13 -0400 Message-ID: <4082819E.10106@free.fr> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 15:24:46 +0200 From: Remi Colinet User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Questions : disk partition re-reading Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 706 Lines: 22 Hi, I have 2 questions about disk partitioning under linux 2.6.x : 1/ Is it possible to alter a disk partition of a used disk and beeing able to use the modified partition without having to reboot the box? 2/ Is it possible to delete a disk partition without having the partition numbers changed? My box is an AMD 2500+/Asus board with FC1 / 2.6.5. Do I need to upgrade fdisk or use an other utility? Or do I need to apply a kernel patch? Regards, Remi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/