On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

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> On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 
> > Greetings;
> >
> > Do we have a utility that can force the kernel to re-read, and
> > re-initialize itself to a given drives partition tables without
> > having to reboot if one is working with a drive that is not part of
> > the required kernel directory tree?
> 
> i would try "partprobe".

or "sfdisk -R /dev/sdX"

c'ya
sven

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