On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > The kernel won't reread the partition table as long as ANY part of that > disk is mounted. Reboot (which of course unmounts everything) to reread > the partition table. >
OK, I've noted that now, thanks for the clue. > > Just any reboot should have worked. Once you reboot it reads the > updated partition table and THEN you can mkfs the new partitions. Until > /proc/partitions matches what you see in fdisk, you really don't want to > try access the partitions since it won't match on the next boot anyhow. > > Len Sorensen > It certainly _seemed_ that the kernel was telling me one thing and fdisk -l another, even after a reboot. But because I hadn't appreciated the importance of rebooting before accessing the new partitions, I probably threw in some extra 'mkfs' commands to spice up the mix. Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
