On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 06:19:29PM -0700, John Galt wrote: > >want it active. If you change the partitiontable it might be usefull. > > Linux Fdisk resyncs the disks almost immediately. DOS fdisk requires a > reboot to do this. Did you reboot after running fdisk when installing > Debian? fdisk can only tell the kernel to re-read the partition table when there are NO mounted filesystems on that disk. so if you repartition your root disk when booted from it you will have to reboot for the kernel to be aware of the changes. (repartitioning your root disk while running off it strikes me as a rather poor idea anyway) kernel 2.4 *might* be able to reread the partition table on busy disks, at least under some circumstances. im not sure about that. also note that 2.0 kernels had some obscure problems with rereading the partition table and it was considered good practice to reboot after altering partitions, this went away in 2.2 (and maybe later 2.0) kernels -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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