On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:23:47 -0700 Rick Stevens <rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 12:24 -0500, Zane C.B. wrote: > > Any way to tell the kernel to take another look at this device? I > > partitioned it using fdisk. I can see the partitions if I point > > something like fdisk at /dev/hdc, but I don't see them if I do > > a /dev/hdc*. > > fdisk only deals with entire drives (such as /dev/hdc). "/dev/hdc1" > is a _partition_ on that drive, and you don't use tools like fdisk on > partitions. I am confused. In what way is fdisk not for messing with partitions? # fdisk -l /dev/hdc Disk /dev/hdc: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 61049646 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 1 61049616 244198462 5 Extended /dev/hdc5 2 500002 2000004 83 Linux /dev/hdc6 500003 5382816 19531254 83 Linux /dev/hdc7 5382817 10265630 19531254 83 Linux /dev/hdc8 10265631 20031256 39062502 83 Linux /dev/hdc9 20031257 61049616 164073438 83 Linux From the man... fdisk - Partition table manipulator for Linux
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