Re: deleting partition does not effect superblock?

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>deleted) or otherwise modified. So it's perfectly okay to delete such
>a container (eg. remove start and end from the partition table) and
>recreate it at some time later (by adding those values back to the
>partition table.)  As long as the new container starts at the same
>location, a filesystem driver will be able to find the old
>information. If you start a block later, it won't find it's
>superblocks.
>
If using a filesystem with replicated superblocks (ext*, xfs), then ...?
[Includes expecting weird breakage.]



Jan Engelhardt
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