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Re: Moving partition to an overlapping position
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Andrew Clausen |
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Re: Moving partition to an overlapping position |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Jul 2005 09:04:41 +1000 |
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On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 11:40:08AM +0200, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> > In the case of the FAT resizer, it is possible to have both the
> > old and new filesystems being valid simultaneously! (Provided the
> > FATs, etc. don't overlap)
>
> If you update block references then they can't cover both filesystems at
> the same time. Consequently they can't be valid simultaneously.
The FAT resizer doesn't update block references.
> However if you rewrite everything on the free space then it should be ok,
> unless the kernel, the disk or its controller still cached reordered data
> when the power loss happened, after user exited Parted.
The old filesystem will be still in tact if you never changed it!
Cheers,
Andrew
- Re: Moving partition to an overlapping position, (continued)
- Re: Moving partition to an overlapping position, Szakacsits Szabolcs, 2005/07/20
- Re: Moving partition to an overlapping position, K.G., 2005/07/20
- Re: Moving partition to an overlapping position, Szakacsits Szabolcs, 2005/07/20
- Re: Moving partition to an overlapping position, K.G., 2005/07/20
- Re: Moving partition to an overlapping position, Szakacsits Szabolcs, 2005/07/20
- Re: Moving partition to an overlapping position, K.G., 2005/07/20
- Re: Moving partition to an overlapping position, Szakacsits Szabolcs, 2005/07/20
Re: Moving partition to an overlapping position, leslie . polzer, 2005/07/20