Why reboot after fdisk of external drive?
Tomasz Torcz
tomek at crocom.com.pl
Tue Mar 11 11:56:40 UTC 2008
Dnia 11-03-2008, wto o godzinie 13:04 +1100, Simon Slater pisze:
> G'day again, It must be my day for questions. This more for filling in
> the blanks than problem solving.
>
> I'm thinking of getting a Maxtor OneTouch IV 250GB external drive, so I
> googled other peoples experiences. On 2 sites (below) I found similar
> explanations of the steps to get one working under Linux. Both say to
> reboot between fdisk and mkfs. Why?
Probably author didn't know about "blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdX" to
force kernel to refresh its information about partition table.
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