Hi, I've noticed on several desktops and laptops that fdisk fails to re-read the partition table. Is anyone looking into this? I've seen it over the last 2 years, latest version I have seen it in is v2.14 on an Ubuntu live disc, 8.04. Makes it a big of a pain, as I'd like to partition and install as the same step. None of hte drives are in use, and none are mounted or being accessed by anything else, its a straight booted Ubuntu live disc, and then the drives are plugged in, and unmounted so I can modify them. my only other feedback is the list majordomo takes 4 emails to subscribe me to this list, and its not mentioned in any of those 4 emails that the address to post is util-linux-ng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Unless I've missed it in the "fog", in which case perhaps it can be made clear :) root@ubuntu:/dev# fdisk sdb The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 38913. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p Disk sdb: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xe3414533 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System sdb1 1 38913 312568641 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) Command (m for help): d Selected partition 1 Command (m for help): w The partition table has been altered! Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 5: Input/output error. The kernel still uses the old table. The new table will be used at the next reboot. Syncing disks. root@ubuntu:/dev# root@ubuntu:/dev# fdisk -v fdisk (util-linux-ng 2.14) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
