On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 06:19:29PM -0700, John Galt wrote: > On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 Martin_Tanzer@dvs-berlin.de 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? I'm quite sure that if you repartition a disk while any partition is mounted, other utilities such as mke2fs do not "see" the new partitioning scheme until a reboot. If there aren't any partitions mounted on the disk in question then all's well ... -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Inc. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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