From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anssi Saari Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:52:04 +0000 Subject: Re: Creating partition devices after creating a partition on a harddisk? Message-Id: <20060227155204.GA20154@sci.fi> List-Id: References: <20060223111429.GA21178@sci.fi> In-Reply-To: <20060223111429.GA21178@sci.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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... ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel