I imagine that the reporter has now moved on from this situation. However, people in similar situations should see the following page for ways to refresh the kernel's view of the partition table after adding partitions:
http://serverfault.com/questions/36038/reread-partition-table-without- rebooting Running partprobe on the disk device worked for me: sudo partprobe /dev/sda I imagine that the need to do this originates in some behavioural change in the 2.6.24 kernel or earlier. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269662 Title: Creating a new partition To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/269662/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
