Re: 1.4.18 problem with counting?

[Andrew Clausen]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 02:02:04PM +0200, Pixel wrote:
> About this reboot needed restriction (BLKRRPART), there is a linux 2.4
> extension that get rid of it:
> 
> > This BLKPG_ADD_PARTITION stuff is rather powerful. You can add and delete
> > partitions on the fly. No kernel parsing partition tables is needed, 
> > userspace
> > tells the kernel where the partition starts, how large it is, what labels it
> > has.
> 
> It works quite nicely (I only use it in diskdrake for adding partitions), but
> doesn't get along nicely with devfs.

Parted 1.5.x already uses this.

Andrew