On Oct 7, 2008, at 5:41 PM, Randy McMurchy wrote:
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.
When I write in fdisk I always get:
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
and according to the code fdisk calls:
ioctl(fd, BLKRRPART);
Upon exiting fdisk new partitions are immediately available. IIRC it
fails with the device is in use -- for example, if I add a partition
in unallocated space without unmounting an existing partition. That
generally isn't a problem for me, as I rarely change partitions on the
boot device, but I can image cases where it is.
Am I abnormal? Or does partprobe call something different so that it can re-scan changed partitions even if the device is in use?
Zach
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