Matthew Burgess wrote: > Apparently the use case is that after using fdisk to edit the partition > table, one would normally reboot so that Linux knows about the new partition > and one can run 'mkfs' on the new /dev node. Instead of rebooting, one can > in fact use partprobe, or partx. I've not tried it, but I'd be surprised if > Linux didn't just do this detection automatically now with things like Udev & > HAL, though having low-level utilities around in case those aren't available > for whatever reason would seem eminently sensible.
To this day, using my most modern systems which include Udev/D-Bus/Hal and all other recent additions, after creating a new partition, I have to reboot to see it in order to create a filesystem. Just FYI. Seems these partprobe, partx utilities would come in handy. -- Randy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
