Comments on: Howto make partition changes visible to the kernel without reboot http://www.debianadmin.com/howto-make-partition-changes-visible-to-the-kernel-without-reboot.html Debian/Ubuntu Linux System Administration Tutorials,Howtos,Tips Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:24:32 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: anant shrivastava http://www.debianadmin.com/howto-make-partition-changes-visible-to-the-kernel-without-reboot.html/comment-page-1#comment-1890 anant shrivastava Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:31:38 +0000 http://www.debianadmin.com/howto-make-partition-changes-visible-to-the-kernel-without-reboot.html#comment-1890 @admin yes i know we need to install parted for partprobe but you should have dealt with what partprobe actually do so that you don't need to restart system. instead of showing options about how to use parted. coz most of the people use fdisk + partprobe combination coz thwey find parted cumbersome. although i agree it has a lot more features then fdisk but full potential is realized only by QTPARTED or GPARTED BYTHE WAY i THINK you have changed the aticle, so the thing is done. @admin
yes i know we need to install parted for partprobe but you should have dealt with what partprobe actually do so that you don’t need to restart system. instead of showing options about how to use parted.

coz most of the people use fdisk + partprobe combination coz thwey find parted cumbersome. although i agree it has a lot more features then fdisk but full potential is realized only by QTPARTED or GPARTED

BYTHE WAY i THINK you have changed the aticle, so the thing is done.

]]> By: Admin http://www.debianadmin.com/howto-make-partition-changes-visible-to-the-kernel-without-reboot.html/comment-page-1#comment-1889 Admin Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:52:57 +0000 http://www.debianadmin.com/howto-make-partition-changes-visible-to-the-kernel-without-reboot.html#comment-1889 @anant partprobe is a part of parted package so we need to install parted package @anant

partprobe is a part of parted package so we need to install parted package

]]> By: anant http://www.debianadmin.com/howto-make-partition-changes-visible-to-the-kernel-without-reboot.html/comment-page-1#comment-1888 anant Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:41:02 +0000 http://www.debianadmin.com/howto-make-partition-changes-visible-to-the-kernel-without-reboot.html#comment-1888 partprobe works 95 /100 times but still there is a 5% chances that your system might not be able to work even after partprobe, so still partprobe is considered a quci cut and not the actuall solution. partprobe actually just updates the kernel table entries so as to make changes visible. partprobe works 95 /100 times but still there is a 5% chances that your system might not be able to work even after partprobe, so still partprobe is considered a quci cut and not the actuall solution.

partprobe actually just updates the kernel table entries so as to make changes visible.

]]> By: anant http://www.debianadmin.com/howto-make-partition-changes-visible-to-the-kernel-without-reboot.html/comment-page-1#comment-1887 anant Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:39:57 +0000 http://www.debianadmin.com/howto-make-partition-changes-visible-to-the-kernel-without-reboot.html#comment-1887 please stick to the post topic while posting, your post talks a lot about parted but only talks about partprobe in the last closing lines. please stick to the post topic while posting, your post talks a lot about parted but only talks about partprobe in the last closing lines.

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