On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 05:41:57PM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > Matthew Burgess wrote: > > > Apparently the use case is that after using fdisk to edit the partition > > table, one would normally reboot so that Linux knows about the new > > partition and one can run 'mkfs' on the new /dev node. Instead of > > rebooting, one can in fact use partprobe, or partx. I've not tried it, but > > I'd be surprised if Linux didn't just do this detection automatically now > > with things like Udev & HAL, though having low-level utilities around in > > case those aren't available for whatever reason would seem eminently > > sensible. > > To this day, using my most modern systems which include Udev/D-Bus/Hal > and all other recent additions, after creating a new partition, I have > to reboot to see it in order to create a filesystem. Just FYI. > > Seems these partprobe, partx utilities would come in handy. > Same here (had to repartition in the last month to get more space for '/'. I really wish I'd known about these utilities at that time. I don't have hal, of course, but I can't see how the _kernel_ is going to take instructions from it (hal just passes messages around in userspace, no ?).
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