Re: Possibly silly Q?

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Jan 14 2008 14:34, 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?

fdisk issues an ioctl to reread the drive after you issued 'w'(rite).
Works.

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