reboot after fdisk?

[inetd]

I am using redhat 7.3 that run fine for year without reboot. Now I want to create a new partition in one of the harddisk, say /dev/hdc. The new partition will be /dev/hdc3.

Since after partitioning, it says that re-reading partition fail because of device busy and need to reboot to get the new partition table.

Do I really need to reboot after creating the new partition using fdisk before formating it and than copying data to it?

Thanks.

 

[thedaver]

I've always been able to

fdisk (create partition)
fdisk (write partition table)
mke2fs /dev/hdcx
mount /dev/hdcx /blah

I've never known linux to require a reboot except for a kernel upgrade, but there's always a first...

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[Morsing]

Trust me, you need to reboot. I don't know why but I agree it's annoying. You can try doing it but it's at your own risk.
It might refuse when you try creating the filesystem so you won't even be able to anyway.

Cheers

Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support