Dnia 11-03-2008, wto o godzinie 13:04 +1100, Simon Slater pisze: > 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? Probably author didn't know about "blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdX" to force kernel to refresh its information about partition table.
