Martin_Tanzer@dvs-berlin.de wrote: > > As far as I know you only might want to reboot if you change the hostname and there's no need to reboot in this case. > want it active. If you change the partitiontable it might be usefull. why? you can create filesystems and mount/unmount disks (partitions) without rebooting... about the only reason for a reboot is if you want to use different kernel. erik