Re: auto-partiton new blank hotadded disk

[Ingo Molnar]

On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Benno Senoner wrote:

> > no need to do this in the kernel (or even in raidtools). I use such
> > scripts to 'mass-create' partitioned disks:
> 
> but it's not unsafe to overwrite the partition-table of disks which are
> actually part of a soft-raid array and in use ? 

it's unsafe, and thus the kernel does not allow it at all. Why dont you
create the partitions before hot-adding the disk?

-- mingo