Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 05 Apr 1999 17:58:02 -0400 | | From | Mark Lord <> | | Subject | Re: 2.2.3 disk I/O broken |
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Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: ... > A moment ago I used cfdisk on some machine and found > the partition table unchanged after writing it back. > And sync;sync;sync did not change that. > But a second invocation of cfdisk worked. > > This was a vanilla 2.2.3 kernel.
The partition table cannot be re-scanned unless the drive is completely "closed" (not "open").
Eg. If any partitions from the drive are mounted, the table cannot be re-scanned.
Otherwise, it should work. If not, then there's a bug.. -- mlord@pobox.com
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