On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 10:42:07AM +0100, . wrote: > Pabla,Balbir [Ontario] wrote: > > > I thought, the process should be fdisk followed by mkfs. > > Use cfdisk to create partitions; using fdisk is afaik deprecated. > *Always* reboot after creating partitions or changing the partition > table before doing anything else, and verify that the partitions have > been created in the way you wanted after the reboot.
This isn't necessary if the kernel re-reads the partition table. cfdisk will notify you if it did not. It only fails if a partition on the disk is mounted. This is a long-standing kernel bug; the kernel hackers disagreed on the best way to fix it, so it remains broken. (Actually, it may be fixed in recent versions). By the way, if the re-read fails, you can always umount and then run "sfdisk -R" (or cfdisk and hit W) to try it again. The sfdisk man page recommends running this before changing your partitions, so you know whether it will succeed afterwards. Good idea! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
