Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753962AbYANTha (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:37:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751627AbYANThX (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:37:23 -0500 Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com ([64.235.106.9]:35675 "EHLO astoria.ccjclearline.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750990AbYANThW (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:37:22 -0500 Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:37:19 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Gene Heskett cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Possibly silly Q? In-Reply-To: <200801141434.00934.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <200801141434.00934.gene.heskett@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LFD 882 2007-12-20) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - astoria.ccjclearline.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 968 Lines: 26 On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > Do we have a utility that can force the kernel to re-read, and > re-initialize itself to a given drives partition tables without > having to reboot if one is working with a drive that is not part of > the required kernel directory tree? i would try "partprobe". rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Home page: http://crashcourse.ca Fedora Cookbook: http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook ======================================================================== -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/