Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:43:05 +0100 (CET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: Possibly silly Q? |
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On Jan 14 2008 15:53, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> >> 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>'. > >i remember bringing up this very issue quite some time ago and, IIRC, >the consensus was that *primary* partition changes would be re-read by >the kernel, but not *logical* partition changes. or something sort of >like that.
Nah, it dumps the whole partition structure. Note in fs/partition/check.c:rescan_partitions:
for (p = 1; p < disk->minors; p++) delete_partition(disk, p);
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