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From: Asdo <asdo@shiftmail.org>
Subject: Re: How to reread disk size?
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:49:04 +0100
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Asdo wrote:
> [...]
> It rereads the wrong size, i.e. the one of the old disk :-(
> I am sure sdr is the correct disk, I even identified it by doing dd 
> if=/dev/sdr of=/dev/null and then looking at the activity led to 
> confirm it's the right drive. It should have read a size of 1TB.

I can also add that smartctl -a /dev/sdr reads the CORRECT size...
(but it does not update the size in the linux's block device obviously)

:-( ...