[clug] reiserfs problem

[Kim Holburn]

At 9:30 PM +1000 2003/08/12, Martin Pool wrote:
>On 12 Aug 2003, Kim Holburn <kim.holburn at anu.edu.au> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, it was a brand new disk.  I created a partition.  I'm sure
>> I've done that lots of times and not had to reboot to get the kernel
>> to see it.  What exactly does "any of the partitions are in use"
>> mean?
>
>Mounted, or open as a raw device (by mkfs, fsck, etc).  You will see a
>kernel message when the partition table is re-read.  If you don't see
>the message, they haven't been reread and as far as the kernel is
>concerned they still have their old locations.

As I said, a new disk, never used before AFAIK, no partitions, I created 1 partition then tried to run mkreiserfs.  Never "used" it at all.  How could I, it had nothing on it?

I've seen messages before when using fdisk or cfdisk saying I should reboot but always ignored it and ran mkfs or whatever and it just worked.

Kim
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