Re: Possibly silly Q?

[Anton Altaparmakov]

Hi,

On 14 Jan 2008, at 19:34, 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?


Yes, the blockdev utility.  You want the --rereadpt option, i.e.

blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdc

It is part of the util-linux package.

Best regards,

	Anton
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Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/

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