On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 05:17:31PM -0500, Phil Howard wrote: > And you could still do a "bare metal" recovery as long as the partitions > on disk were compatible (which is why, if I write such a driver in Linux > I would use the MSDOS partition table format).
Some OS screw up when the partition table is modified. This is why fdisk gives a warning. Beeing paranoid, I always reboot after I modify the partition table. I don't think it is really worth the effort to implement such a functionality. I bet in most installations compression/encryption/network is the real bottlenek.
