From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale) Subject: Re: Bernoulli/SyQuest Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:18:18 GMT
In article <1993Jan27.011248.8864@colorado.edu> drew@romeo.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) writes:
>>(2) although the Syquest is a
>>"mountable" hard disk, the partition table on the cartridge is only
>>read once during boot up, so you are out of luck if you want to umount
>>and mount a different cartridge while the system is up and running.
>
>Nope, you can change cartridges. Sending a BLKRRPART ioctl to the disk will
>reread the partition table.
It is actually better than that. The kernel should detect a disk
change and automatically reread the partition tables when you try and remount
the disk. It should also flush all of the buffers and so forth, so you should
be able to change disks without any trouble. I would like to know if this is
not the case for anyone. I know of at least one person who indicated that
the automatic re-read of the partition table was working correctly.
-Eric
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