Re: Why reboot after fdisk of external drive?

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On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 13:04 +1100, Simon Slater wrote:
> 	G'day again, It must be my day for questions.  This more for filling in
> the blanks than problem solving.
> 
> 	I'm thinking of getting a Maxtor OneTouch IV 250GB external drive, so I
> googled other peoples experiences. On 2 sites (below) I found similar
> explanations of the steps to get one working under Linux.  Both say to
> reboot between fdisk and mkfs. Why?
> 
> 1/  http://www-personal.umich.edu/~hnarayan/maxtor-harddrive-linux.html
> 2/  http://www.totalpenguin.com/content/view/25/40/
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards
> Simon
> 
 Hello 
 Beats me I have a 500GB and I didnt. 

 LostSon


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