Re: Why reboot after fdisk of external drive?

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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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