On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Michael R. Jinks wrote:
> I'm an idiot, sorry for the bandwidth waste. I had been disregarding
> the notice from fdisk saying that the partition table would not be
> updated until the system rebooted. Reboot, all is as expected.
i've known this for a while, but i've never known *why* a reboot
was necessary. a guess is that, upon reboot, the table is read
into RAM and consulted there. updating it in the MBR has no effect.
is this what's happening?
rday
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