[Linus Torvalds]
> If you are fdisk'ing your disks while you have processes with open
> descriptors to the partitions, you're asking for trouble, and you
> deserve whatever you get. Don't be ridiculous - this is not
> something we should even TRY to fix.
On Solaris, I routinely resize partitions and grow file systems while
running with the file systems mounted. Whatever decreases downtime is
useful in my book.
Kjetil T.
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