RE: [Xen-users] Handling virtual disks on Xen

["James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Monday 07 July 2008, James Harper wrote:
> > Even if it did, can Linux handle it anyway? I added a disk to a RAID
> > array recently and while I could use fdisk to add a new partition, I
had
> > to reboot before Linux could use it.
> 
> partprobe
> 

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't partprobe just ask Linux to
re-read the partition table? This is exactly what fdisk does, but it
fails if the disk is already in use, which is the case we are discussing
here.

James

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