Re: re-reading the partition table on a "busy" drive

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Fri Sep 08 2006 - 02:56:12 EST


>>
> Yes, very interesting thing. While one will destroy its part.table, he can not
> see until reboot, heh. But there were days, when grub used to install itself on
> XFS partition (XFS isn't FAT-boot-record compatible) *silently*, but nothing
> was wrong to me : it's linux-gnu ;D

People running XFS should know you cannot put boot code into the PBR.



Jan Engelhardt
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