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DateMon, 05 Apr 1999 17:58:02 -0400
FromMark Lord <>
SubjectRe: 2.2.3 disk I/O broken
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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