On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 06:36:39PM +0000, Rene Hojbjerg Larsen wrote: > Btw.: does anyone know why the re-read fails? AFAIR, this used to work > fine on my SlackWare system some eons ago, but invariably fails on my > Debian system--seemingly independant of the kernel version used.
Same experience here usually. Frustrating. If any partition on the disk is mounted, you can't write to the partition table at all, perhaps that's relevant. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org