A simple user space utility to resize an existing partition. It tries to read
the start of partiton from sysfs.
This is a real quick dirty patch I used for my testing. I am sure there
are better and faster ways of getting to partition "start" from device
and partition number.
Signed-off-by:
Hi,
Few people have pinged me in rencent past about status of this patch, hence,
this is V4 of patch which adds support for online resizing of a partition.
This patch is based on previously posted patches by Phillip Susi.
There are two patches. Out of which one is kernel patch and other one is
Add a new operation code (BLKPG_RESIZE_PARTITION) to the BLKPG ioctl that
allows altering the size of an existing partition, even if it is currently
in use.
This patch converts hd_struct->nr_sects into sequence counter because
One might extend a partition while IO is happening to it and update
Add a new operation code (BLKPG_RESIZE_PARTITION) to the BLKPG ioctl that
allows altering the size of an existing partition, even if it is currently
in use.
This patch converts hd_struct-nr_sects into sequence counter because
One might extend a partition while IO is happening to it and update of
Hi,
Few people have pinged me in rencent past about status of this patch, hence,
this is V4 of patch which adds support for online resizing of a partition.
This patch is based on previously posted patches by Phillip Susi.
There are two patches. Out of which one is kernel patch and other one is
A simple user space utility to resize an existing partition. It tries to read
the start of partiton from sysfs.
This is a real quick dirty patch I used for my testing. I am sure there
are better and faster ways of getting to partition start from device
and partition number.
Signed-off-by: Vivek
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