Hi,
On 14 Jan 2008, at 19:34, Gene Heskett wrote:
Do we have a utility that can force the kernel to re-read, and re-
initialize
itself to a given drives partition tables without having to reboot
if one is
working with a drive that is not part of the required kernel
directory tree?
Yes, the blockdev utility. You want the --rereadpt option, i.e.
blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdc
It is part of the util-linux package.
Best regards,
Anton
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Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/
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