"partprobe" and device mapper

[Herta Van den Eynde]

thomas.vonsteiger at bluewin.ch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Older Version of Linux without device mapper if i have a new partition i can
> use "partprobe to update the partitions in /proc/partition without reboot.
> Newer Versions of Linux like FC5 are using devicemapper. /dev/mapper/XXXX
> can be used for vg or filesystem.
> If I create a new partition on a disk how I can tell devicemapper from to
> new partition without reboot ?
> partprobe is not working for this. I need to sea all my new partition in
> /dev/mapper 
> 
> regards
> Thomas

Sounds like you're looking for kpartx.  It's used by rc.sysinit to 
create the device maps.

Kind regards,

Herta

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