linux-kernel - Re: Possibly silly Q?

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Date:	Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:50:23 +0100 (CET)
From:	Sven-Haegar Koch <haegar@...net.de>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
cc:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possibly silly Q?

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

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