On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>
> The kernel won't reread the partition table as long as ANY part of that
> disk is mounted. Reboot (which of course unmounts everything) to reread
> the partition table.
>
OK, I've noted that now, thanks for the clue.
>
> Just any reboot should have worked. Once you reboot it reads the
> updated partition table and THEN you can mkfs the new partitions. Until
> /proc/partitions matches what you see in fdisk, you really don't want to
> try access the partitions since it won't match on the next boot anyhow.
>
> Len Sorensen
>
It certainly _seemed_ that the kernel was telling me one thing and
fdisk -l another, even after a reboot. But because I hadn't appreciated
the importance of rebooting before accessing the new partitions, I
probably threw in some extra 'mkfs' commands to spice up the mix.
Ken
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