On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 02:02:31PM +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 06:09:15PM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > I added a new partition (/dev/sda8). (Other partitions were already in > > use.) > > > > Is there any tool or kernel module to recognize this device without > > rebooting? > > I guess cfdisk calls some ioctls to force kernel to reread the new > partition table after writing it... It does; however IIRC the ioctl call results in a successful reread of the partition table only if none of the other partitions on that drive are currently mounted. Since the OP says other partitions were in use, I assume he means they were mounted. I'm afraid in this case a reboot is called for, though I'd love to hear otherwise. -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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