On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 09:04:01PM +0000, Jon Grant wrote:
> In an old version of fdisk, it was not possible to re-read the
> partition table on a device which contained the mounted root
> partition. is this still the case?
Sure.
> If so, could the error message
> include this info, so users know they need to reboot.
There is:
printf(_("\nWARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error %d: %s.\n"
"The kernel still uses the old table. The new table will be used at\n"
"the next reboot or after you run partprobe(8) or kpartx(8)\n"),
errno, strerror(errno));
> Example old output:
[...]
> The new table will be used at the next reboot.
I think it's pretty obvious that you need to reboot.
Karel
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