On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 06:50:38AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have remade a partition table before from a printout after losing it. The > > data was still there. > > Something is nagging me about this remaking the partition table. I'm not > positive, but I think it is important to reboot before writing to the > partitions. So just to be safe, be sure that you reboot after you remake > the table whether you do it by moving all the data first or by just leaving > the data in place. I think there is a warning about that when you do the > write with linux fdisk at the end of editing the table, but I'm not sure > about that.
There is indeed such a warning. After writing to the partition table, you're supposed to reboot before writing to / creating filesystems on the disk, it seems. If the disk is supported by a kernel module, removing the module and reinserting it seems to suffice. I must say this seems unpleasantly DOSy. Thought you weren't supposed to have to reboot Linux? :-) Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
