On 7/20/05, Glen Gray <glen at lincor.com> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>> I was setting up a test build host to look at what it would take to get
> our product on FC4.
>> For some reason my format_device function in the bash script was failing
> on any of the mkswap/mke2fs commands. It was claiming that it couldn't
> find /dev/<device>.
>> Brute force fix was to make a call to /sbin/start_udev which triggered a
> a refresh. I'm sure there must be a better way to trigger this, so if
> you've any suggestions, then please pass them on.
> --
use /sbin/partprobe
It forces a reread of the partition table.
If you look at /proc/partitions before and just after a partition, it
will read the same. You need to force it to relook at the partition
table. Run that command and cat /proc/partitions again and you will
see yur new partitions in there
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