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SubjectRe: Possibly silly Q?

On Jan 14 2008 14:34, Gene Heskett wrote:
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>Do we have a utility that can force the kernel to re-read, and re-initialize
>itself to a given drives partition tables without having to reboot if one is
>working with a drive that is not part of the required kernel directory tree?

fdisk issues an ioctl to reread the drive after you issued 'w'(rite).
Works.



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