On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:10:14PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Actually, there have been cases where I had to reboot after using > fdisk. It usually happens, if for some reason a partition is involved > that is still in use. It's been a while, so I don't remember the > details, but when it happens, fdisk will indeed tell you to reboot (or > better: It'll tell you,that the kernel will use the old partition > table until you reboot).
I've gotten this warning too. From man page (when all else fails): A sync() and a BLKRRPART ioctl() (reread partition table from disk) are performed before exiting when the partition table has been updated. Long ago it used to be necessary to reboot after the use of fdisk. I do not think this is the case anymore - indeed, rebooting too quickly might cause loss of not-yet-written data. Note that both the kernel and the disk hardware may buffer data. "I do not think..." ??? -- Hal Burgiss -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
