On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 06:49:26PM +0100, Rene Rebe wrote: > > > I have a 20gb hard disk on dev/hdb > > > I run fdisk and create a primary type 83 partition > > > I run " mkreiserfs /dev/hdb1" > > > > Did you reboot after creating the partition with fdisk so the kernel is > > able to read the new partition table? > > Huh? This is not needed for Linux since years!? (But I think the Kernel > Interface for this changed lately - so maybe the fdisk is too old - it is > in util-linux ...)
The kernel is only able to reread the partition table if there are no mounted filesystems on the drive. -- Ragnar Kjørstad Big Storage
