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Howto make partition changes visible to the kernel without reboot

Posted by Admin on 11th November 2007

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Many system administrators may be in the habit of re-booting their systems to make partition changes visible to the kernel. With Linux, this is not usually necessary. The partprobe command, from the parted package, informs the kernel about changes to partitions.

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