Re: Possibly silly Q?

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Jan 14 2008 22:29, Olaf Titz wrote:
>> 200Mb had been filled when it had been umounted from /mnt/bootf8
>> repartitioned, mke2fs'd, a journal added and a new label written and then
>> mounted to /amandatapes.
>>
>> Something it seems to me, should have forced the re-init, but didn't.  So is
>
>Something I stumbled across just a few days ago: fdisk does cause the
>kernel to re-read the new partitions, but nothing causes udev to
>create any required new device nodes...

- kobject_del - will cause udev to delete /dev/sd??
- kernel rescans partitions
- kobject_add - will cause udev to add /dev/sd??

simple :)
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