From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Creating partition devices after creating a partition on a harddisk?
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:32:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602231432.54287.arvidjaar@mail.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060223111429.GA21178@sci.fi>
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On Thursday 23 February 2006 14:14, Anssi Saari wrote:
> I added a partition to a harddisk yesterday, but after I exited fdisk
> I couldn't mkfs on it, because the device node didn't exist, /dev/hda7
> to be exact. After manually creating it with mknod, I still couldn't
> mkfs. So I removed the manually created node and rebooted and then I
> had the node and could mkfs.
>
> But what does one do to accomplish the same thing without rebooting?
>
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.
blockdev is part of util-linux
- -andrey
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-23 11:32 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 [this message]
2006-02-27 14:18 ` Creating partition devices after creating a partition on a David Zeuthen
2006-02-27 15:52 ` Creating partition devices after creating a partition on a harddisk? Anssi Saari
2006-02-27 18:34 ` Andrey Borzenkov
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