On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 11:37 -0500, Peter Jones wrote: > On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 11:07 -0500, Peter Jones wrote: > > The patch adds a block device ioctl BLKRMPARTS, which simply turns all > > of the subdevices on a block device off. You can turn them back on with > > BLKRRPART, which is exposed to sysadmins via "/sbin/blockdev > > --rereadpt". I'll look at adding --rmparts to that utility as well. > > .. actually the patch may not be necessary, there's a way to remove > individual partitions elsewhere in the kernel, and that may be usable. > The functionality should probably still be added to /sbin/blockdev . OK, that should be in rawhide in the next couple of days. Hopefully tomorrow, but the build boxes are a little crowded recently. -- Peter -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
