[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/11/2006 03:08:46 PM: > Is there a way of creating partitions using fdisk, and not having to > reboot before creating filesystems on the new partitions? ie getting the > kernel to be aware of the new partions. > Does it have to be fdisk? cfdisk is recommended over fdisk (at least on my dist), and from the man: W Write partition table to disk (must enter an upper case W). Since this might destroy data on the disk, you must either confirm or deny the write by entering `yes' or `no'. If you enter `yes', cfdisk will write the partition table to disk and the tell the kernel to re-read the partition table from the disk. The re-reading of the partition table works is most cases, but I have seen it fail. Don't panic. It will be correct after you reboot the system. In all cases, I still recommend rebooting the system--just to be safe.
If you need to use fdisk, I guess you could find out what cfdisk does to re-read the partition tables and use that. Cheers, Scott -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
