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From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
To: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possibly silly Q?
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:37:19 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801141436590.22800@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200801141434.00934.gene.heskett@gmail.com>

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Gene Heskett wrote:

> Greetings;
>
> Do we have a utility that can force the kernel to re-read, and
> re-initialize itself to a given drives partition tables without
> having to reboot if one is working with a drive that is not part of
> the required kernel directory tree?

i would try "partprobe".

rday
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-14 19:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-14 19:34 Gene Heskett
2008-01-14 19:37 ` Robert P. J. Day [this message]
2008-01-14 19:50   ` Sven-Haegar Koch
2008-01-14 19:43 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-14 19:53 ` Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
2008-01-14 20:53   ` Robert P. J. Day
2008-01-15 16:43     ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-14 19:55 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2008-01-14 21:29 ` Olaf Titz
2008-01-14 22:17   ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-15 17:01 ` Lennart Sorensen

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