On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Piete Brooks wrote:
> >> BTW: is there any fundamental reason why MD has to work on whole
> >> partitions, rather than being able to take a range of blocks within a
> >> partition ? Combined with resize2fs, this would make a "really useful"
> >> facility to resize filesystems at a finer resolution that I can
> >> currently manage.
> > a partition _is_ a 'range of blocks'.
>
> OK -- maybe I wasn't explicit ...
>
> > Just leave space at the end of your partition (and use fdisk to change it
> > later on), or use LINEAR to attach some space to the end of some device.
>
> I meant the units used *BY* md.
>
> As I read it one can only add *complete BIOS partitions* (i.e. things fdisk
> manipulates).
> What I'd like to be able to say is
>
> add blocks 1000-2000 of sdc9 to md5
why? we do not want to introduce yet another partitioning without any good
reason.
> rather than being limited to
>
> add the whole of sdc9 to md5
>
> (or do you have tool which allows logical partitions to be manipulated
> better than fdisk does)
whats the problem with fdisk?
-- mingo
