linux-kernel - Re: Possibly silly Q?

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801142043170.24893@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Date:	Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:43:45 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possibly silly Q?

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.

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