Re: disable partitioning!

[Michael Clark]

On 03/09/04 20:13, Jinu M. wrote:
> Hello Stefan.
>
>
> > We are writing a block device driver for 2.4.x kernel.
> > I want to know how to indicate to the filesystem that our block driver does not support partitions.
> > I mean fdisk should not be allowed on disks supported by our block driver.
>
>
> You can run fdisk on a file if you want to, it doesn't care what type of
> block device it is. What you're really asking for is a way to make the
> kernel not read the partition table if it exists on the device and
> that's something else.
>
> So then how do I stop kernel from reading the partition table?

I believe you can do this by passing 1 as the number of minors
in your call to alloc_disk(int num_minors).

~mc
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