Re: Possibly silly Q?

[Dagfinn Ilmari MannsÃker]

Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Greetings;
>
> 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?
[â]
> Something it seems to me, should have forced the re-init, but didn't.  So is 
> there a tool that can force that?

fdisk or similar should have issued an ioctl to reread the partition
table after writing the new one, but you can do it manually with
'blockdev --rereadpt <device>'.

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ilmari
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