Comments on: Howto make partition changes visible to the kernel without reboot

By: val

val — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:30:17 +0000

I keep getting “Device or resource busy”, although, I am repartitioning a disk that is not mounted and I am doing it from a Live CD. What’s up with that?

By: Ivan

Ivan — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 11:39:29 +0000

blockdev --rereadpt $DEV

By: anant shrivastava

anant shrivastava — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:31:38 +0000

@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

Admin — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:52:57 +0000

@anant

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

By: anant

anant — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:41:02 +0000

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

anant — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:39:57 +0000

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.