linux-kernel - Re: re-reading the partition table on a "busy" drive

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Date:	Fri, 8 Sep 2006 08:58:08 +0200 (MEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>
Subject: Re: re-reading the partition table on a "busy" drive

>> 
> Yes, very interesting thing. While one will destroy its part.table, he can not
> see until reboot, heh. But there were days, when grub used to install itself on
> XFS partition (XFS isn't FAT-boot-record compatible) *silently*, but nothing
> was wrong to me : it's linux-gnu ;D

People running XFS should know you cannot put boot code into the PBR.



Jan Engelhardt
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