Note that it's still mounted and accessible:Īlignment_offset events_poll_msecs power/ ro discard_alignment ext_range queue/ sdc1/ statĬapability events holders/ range sdc2/ events_async inflight removable size uevent The next reboot or after you run partprobe(8) or kpartx(8)

WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy. dev/sdc2 2099200 15638527 6769664 83 LinuxĬhanges will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.īe careful before using the write command.Ĭalling ioctl() to re-read partition table. I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes So after recreating, you will have to remember what the partition type was set to (NTFS or whatever).ĭisk /dev/sdc: 8006 MB, 8006926336 bytes, 15638528 sectors Linux doesn't care about this information. Note that it does not keep the partition type. If you recreate your partition table using these exact same start locations and sizes, you will be fine. Inside each of those is a file called start and size (so /sys/block/sda/sda1/start). Inside there you will see a directory for each partition ( sda1, sda2, etc). If a partition is in use, it needs to know where the partition starts, so it will refuse to reload the new table until it is no longer in use. How this works is that the kernel keeps the partition layout in memory. The drive was in use at the time the table was changed.There is a possibility to recover the partition table, but it requires 2 conditions be met:

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