http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips This is a Linux sys admin journal by Vivek about sys admin work, Linux tips & tricks, hacks, news and more. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:45:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/re-read-the-partition-table-without-rebooting-linux-system.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/re-read-the-partition-table-without-rebooting-linux-system.html#comments Mon, 08 May 2006 13:35:53 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/re-read-the-partition-table-without-rebooting-linux-system.html If you are using hot swappable hard disk and created new partition using fdisk then you need to reboot Linux based system to get partition recognized. Without reboot you will NOT able to create filesystem on your newly created or modified partitions with the mke2fs command. However with partprobe command you should able to create a new file system without rebooting the box. It is a program that informs the operating system kernel of partition table changes, by requesting that the operating system re-read the partition table.]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/re-read-the-partition-table-without-rebooting-linux-system.html/feed 20