Bug 25709
Summary: | fdisk reboot needed | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | LENHOF <lenh_jea> |
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm> |
Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 7.0 | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
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Last Closed: | 2003-06-05 23:32:16 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
LENHOF
2001-02-02 13:36:55 UTC
That's a limitation of the linux kernel. If you change the partition table of a disk while one of its partitions is mounted, the kernel can't get the new partition table. Hi guys, I'm a little bit surprised by yours response. For a personnal or a workstation purpose reboot is just a question of two minutes.... By I want to enforce the use in the society where I'm working - EDF in France with a contract with Sun - I need this functionnality in order to use Linux for servers... Indeed, with sun Solaris you don't need a reboot for just adding a partition... And with this restriction we cannot use Linux so many times we use Solaris in product environment. I think that more and more with the new things like LVM, ReiserFS, ext3 ;-) , XFS and so an...we are going to need this... So if you don't want to have a look on it...please send a mail to the guy which is responsible of this part or give me an address where I can send an e-mail about this problem... I think this problem could be interesting to be solved for everybody ! Thanks for giving me a response. I know this is not a bug....that's why I selected ENHANCEMENT... And I would like to have a better answer or let this bug open until someone fix it in the kernel... Thanks Regards Jean-Yves LENHOF Personnal E-Mail : lenh_jea Professionnal E-Mail : lenhof reclasify Also, there are better partition-types (BSD for one) which behave better. Closing - now we have LVM I guess its sufficiently enhanced 8) |