writes to unmounted partitions

Prashant Shah pshah.mumbai at gmail.com
Sat Nov 17 05:29:49 EST 2012


Hi,

I am confused on how does Linux kernel handle writes done directly to
the /dev/sda3 partitions which is not even mounted.

Is the kernel even aware of such writes, does it go though the request
queue, I/O scheduler, etc ? Is it possible to monitor such writes ?

Regards.



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