Disc upgrade - how to reread partition table?

[Todd Lyons]

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On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 08:54:29PM +0100, Peter Kjellstrom wrote:

>Very simple example (done on centos-5) with / mounted from sda1:
>1) fdisk create sda2
>2) fdisk -l, yup it's there
>3) mkfs /dev/sda2, nope, no device
>4) partprobe /dev/sda
>5) mkfs /dev/sda2, yup now works.
>On the same centos-5 system I double-checked and no, there is no difference 
>made between primary and extended partitions.

Good, I was living with old info.  Thanks!
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