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On Thursday 25 January 2007 11:12, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:54:51 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > When the |
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> > kernel boots, it reads the partition table off disk and knows that |
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> > the first partition starts at cylinder 0 and the second partition |
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> > starts at say cylinder 2000. The kernel doesn't update this |
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> > information when you run fdisk, so if you delete two partitions and |
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> > create one big one, the kernel can get confused. It's not hard to |
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> > fix on the PC, but Linux runs on 20 architectures that are not all |
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> > as crazy as Intel PCs, which might be why this oddity is still |
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> > there are 15 years. Redhat have a utility called partprobe that |
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> > gets everything back in sync after using fdisk, but I have yet to |
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> > find it in Portage |
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> You can do this with "hdparm -z". If it reports an error, you'll need |
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> to reboot to ensure the kernel's partition table is up to date. |
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Ah, but I don't want to reboot to update the kernels' view of things. |
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All I want to do is run partprobe and then carry on working. It should |
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not be necessary to reboot to do this. |
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But Google just helped me find it - partprobe is in the parted package |
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