[parted-devel] Resize removal

Phillip Susi psusi at cfl.rr.com
Tue Nov 29 21:09:56 UTC 2011


On 11/29/2011 11:02 AM, Petr Uzel wrote:
> I was also thinking about some new BLKPG-like ioctl()s. Could you
> please elaborate more on your new ioctl() proposal? Perhaps we could
> combine the ideas...

I just added one to update the length of the partition.  Attaching the patch so far ( untested ).

> Features of the new ioctl()/s I was thinking about are:
> - get largest number of partition known to the kernel
> - atomically add/remove more than one partition

What benefit would those provide?


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