On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 07:27, rpjday wrote: > > why is it that one needs to reboot after creating a new > partition with fdisk? i'm assuming that, in addition to > updating the physical partition on the hard drive, one also > must update some kind of in-core kernel table that reflects > the disk layout. > > is there any way around the rebooting?
You normally don't have to reboot when repartitioning with Linux. However, if you modify DOS partitions, or modify a disk with mounted DOS partitions, then you do have to reboot. The kernel can not reload the partition table under some circumstances.
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