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Operating Systems Solaris mkfile -n question Post 302566775 by vishalaswani on Friday 21st of October 2011 05:39:00 AM
Old 10-21-2011
Thanks for the information.

Consider the below scenario.

partition 1 : 50g
partition 2 : 30g
partition 3 : 30g

Partition 2 will have disk blocks between partition 1 and 3, hence, if we remove this partition then we can create again only a partition of size 30g or lower, we cannot extend this to use the remaining 50g as that is after partition 3.

But if we delete partition 3, then things are contiguous and we can create a larger partition also.

This is how I perceive the situation, hope this helps.

Regards,
Vishal
 

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ADDPART(8)                                                     System Administration                                                    ADDPART(8)

NAME
addpart - tell the kernel about the existence of a partition SYNOPSIS
addpart device partition start length DESCRIPTION
addpart tells the Linux kernel about the existence of the specified partition. The command is a simple wrapper around the "add partition" ioctl. This command doesn't manipulate partitions on a block device. PARAMETERS
device The disk device. partition The partition number. start The beginning of the partition (in 512-byte sectors). length The length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors). SEE ALSO
delpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8), partx(8) AVAILABILITY
The addpart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. util-linux January 2015 ADDPART(8)
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