Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754790AbYANUAx (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:00:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753624AbYANUAp (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:00:45 -0500 Received: from mercury.sdinet.de ([193.103.161.30]:40348 "EHLO mercury.sdinet.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753397AbYANUAo (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:00:44 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 619 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:00:44 EST Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:50:23 +0100 (CET) From: Sven-Haegar Koch To: "Robert P. J. Day" cc: Gene Heskett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Possibly silly Q? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <200801141434.00934.gene.heskett@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) 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: 796 Lines: 27 On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > 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". or "sfdisk -R /dev/sdX" c'ya sven -- The Internet treats censorship as a routing problem, and routes around it. (John Gilmore on http://www.cygnus.com/~gnu/) -- 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/