Public bug reported:
I ran shred on a hard drive (/dev/sdd) and then tried to run partprobe
to make the device node for its sole partition disappear (/dev/sdd1). It
was not mounted at the time. partprobe claimed to succeed, but in fact
it did nothing. Running "blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdd" worked.
$ sudo partprobe
$ ls /dev/sdd*
/dev/sdd /dev/sdd1
$ sudo partprobe /dev/sdd
$ ls /dev/sdd*
/dev/sdd /dev/sdd1
$ sudo blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdd
$ ls /dev/sdd*
/dev/sdd
$
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: parted 2.3-10ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-21.32-generic 3.5.7.1
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu9
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jan 24 22:08:03 2013
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: parted
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-28 (88 days ago)
** Affects: parted (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug quantal running-unity
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Title:
partprobe silently fails where blockdev --rereadpt succeeds
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