Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757479AbYANW0i (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:26:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756036AbYANWRP (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:17:15 -0500 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:46153 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755897AbYANWRB (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:17:01 -0500 Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:17:00 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Olaf Titz cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Possibly silly Q? In-Reply-To: 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: 862 Lines: 22 On Jan 14 2008 22:29, Olaf Titz wrote: >> 200Mb had been filled when it had been umounted from /mnt/bootf8 >> repartitioned, mke2fs'd, a journal added and a new label written and then >> mounted to /amandatapes. >> >> Something it seems to me, should have forced the re-init, but didn't. So is > >Something I stumbled across just a few days ago: fdisk does cause the >kernel to re-read the new partitions, but nothing causes udev to >create any required new device nodes... - kobject_del - will cause udev to delete /dev/sd?? - kernel rescans partitions - kobject_add - will cause udev to add /dev/sd?? simple :) -- 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/