Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: when/how do we rescan partitions? | Date | Wed, 20 Mar 1996 00:02:10 -0700 | From | Drew Eckhardt <> |
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In message <9603191743.AA05091=aeb@zeus.cwi.nl>, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl writes: >Marty Leisner: > >: Does opening up /dev/hdb R/W and writing the parition table >: force a rescan of the >: partition table? > >: I don't see it... > >Yes. fdisk must of course do a BLKRRPART ioctl to tell >the kernel that partition tables have changed.
Which doesn't fully work when extended partitions are involved. When I repartitioned my 1.2G IDE drive, my Linux file system residing in a newly created logic drive in an extended partition moved by 512 bytes when I rebooted. Grr.
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