Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754407AbYANTnz (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:43:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751451AbYANTnr (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:43:47 -0500 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:35269 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751314AbYANTnr (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:43:47 -0500 Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:43:45 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Engelhardt 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 605 Lines: 15 On Jan 14 2008 14:34, Gene Heskett wrote: > >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? fdisk issues an ioctl to reread the drive after you issued 'w'(rite). Works. -- 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/