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From: Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org>
Subject: Re: Requesting assistance recovering RAID-5 array
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 11:39:33 -0400
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On 4/1/20 11:38 AM, Phil Turmel wrote:
> On 4/1/20 11:21 AM, Daniel Jones wrote:
>> Hi Phil, Wols,

>> My question is how to get the kernel to recognize the
>> /dev/mapper/sd[bcde]1 partitions I have created?  Rebooting doesn't do
>> anything as the overlay loop files aren't something that gets
>> recognized during boot.
> 
> I would create the partition tables once on the live disks.  Then make 
> overlays for the partitions on each test.

And use partprobe if needed to tell the kernel to re-read the partition 
tables.

Phil