On Thursday 25 January 2007 11:12, Neil Bothwick wrote: > 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.
Ah, but I don't want to reboot to update the kernels' view of things. All I want to do is run partprobe and then carry on working. It should not be necessary to reboot to do this. But Google just helped me find it - partprobe is in the parted package alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
