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 sorts this out without a reboot, but in an earlier post the guy said he rebooted after the fdisk. -Andy
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