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: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:34:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602272134.40961.arvidjaar@mail.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060223111429.GA21178@sci.fi>
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On Monday 27 February 2006 17:18, 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?
>
Well, it fails if some partition is mounted or otherwise busy, but this is not
IDE specific. What makes IDE so different?
- -andrey
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-27 18:34 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 ` Creating partition devices after creating a partition on a harddisk? Anssi Saari
2006-02-27 18:34 ` Andrey Borzenkov [this message]
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