From: Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Creating partition devices after creating a partition on a harddisk?
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:52:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060227155204.GA20154@sci.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060223111429.GA21178@sci.fi>
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 09:18:19AM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 14:32 +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > You should be able to do 'bockdev --rereadpt /dev/hda' to force kernel to
> > reread partition table. I would expect that fdisk (or whatever is used to
> > repartition) does the equivalent IOCTL automatically.
>
> I'm pretty sure this wont work on IDE unless someone fixed the IDE code
> in kernel recently. Is this the case?
Unfortunately I went and used up all the space on my new disk, so
I can't easily test this right now. Maybe if I dig up the old disk and
plug it in. This is a laptop, so that's harder than with a desktop...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-27 15:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-23 11:14 Creating partition devices after creating a partition on a harddisk? Anssi Saari
2006-02-23 11:32 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2006-02-27 14:18 ` Creating partition devices after creating a partition on a David Zeuthen
2006-02-27 15:52 ` Anssi Saari [this message]
2006-02-27 18:34 ` Creating partition devices after creating a partition on a harddisk? Andrey Borzenkov
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