Messages in this thread | | | From | Anton Altaparmakov <> | Subject | Re: Possibly silly Q? | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:55:01 +0000 |
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Hi,
On 14 Jan 2008, at 19:34, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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?
Yes, the blockdev utility. You want the --rereadpt option, i.e.
blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdc
It is part of the util-linux package.
Best regards,
Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/
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