Re: reboot after creating partiotion

[Chris Lale <chrislale@untrammelled.co.uk>]

Paras pradhan wrote:
> hi ,
> 
> When i create a new partition using cfdisk , parted or fdisk i need to
> reboot in order to see the device file in /dev.  is there any way so that
> the device file is created instantly as soon as i completed creating the
> partition and without reboot. I am using udev.
> 
> 
> Thanks in adv
> Paras.
> 

>From memory, I think you can mount it straight away (see man mount). Use the
"-t" switch or add an entry to /etc/fstab first.

-- 
Chris.