From: ilmari@ilmari.org (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
To: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possibly silly Q?
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:53:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d8jmyr8xjyi.fsf@nygaard.ping.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200801141434.00934.gene.heskett@gmail.com> (Gene Heskett's message of "Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:34:00 -0500")
Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com> writes:
> 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?
[…]
> Something it seems to me, should have forced the re-init, but didn't. So is
> there a tool that can force that?
fdisk or similar should have issued an ioctl to reread the partition
table after writing the new one, but you can do it manually with
'blockdev --rereadpt <device>'.
--
ilmari
"A disappointingly low fraction of the human race is,
at any given time, on fire." - Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-14 20:27 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
2008-01-14 19:50 ` Sven-Haegar Koch
2008-01-14 19:43 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-14 19:53 ` Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker [this message]
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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