On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:54:51 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > When the > kernel boots, it reads the partition table off disk and knows that the > first partition starts at cylinder 0 and the second partition starts at > say cylinder 2000. The kernel doesn't update this information when you > run fdisk, so if you delete two partitions and create one big one, the > kernel can get confused. It's not hard to fix on the PC, but Linux runs > on 20 architectures that are not all as crazy as Intel PCs, which might > be why this oddity is still there are 15 years. Redhat have a utility > called partprobe that gets everything back in sync after using fdisk, > but I have yet to find it in Portage
You can do this with "hdparm -z". If it reports an error, you'll need to reboot to ensure the kernel's partition table is up to date. -- Neil Bothwick There is absolutely no substitute for a genuine lack of preparation.
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