On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 21:37 +0000, Andy Green wrote: > Steven Ringwald wrote: > > > If a partition on the drive is mounted when you repartition it, the > > kernel and the drive's partition table will be out of sync, and > > subsequent stuff done to the drive will be dubious at best. Better to > > unmount everything (eject???), fdisk, *possibly* run udevstart to get > > the hal stuff to see the change, format the partitions, and then see > > what happens. > > partprobe Sweet! Thanks for that. I never have used/seen that command before, but I am sure will come in very handy for me in other endeavors. > > sorts this out without a reboot, but in an earlier post the guy said he > rebooted after the fdisk. Hm. Then I am at a loss. Steve
