Subject: Reloading partition table?
To: NetBSD Mailing List <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: David A. Gatwood <marsmail@globegate.utm.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/14/1998 21:58:53
Is there a convenient ioctl or something under NetBSD (mac68k) to cause it
to reload its notion of the partition table (fake geometry, whatever)?  I
just took a look at my pdisk mods and noted that I'd #ifdef'ed out the
code to do that under linuxppc/MkLinux without replacing it with anything
equivalent.  Without that, I would expect new partitions not to show 
up without a reboot, unless the NetBSD kernel regenerates its fake
disklabel every time the disklabel is read....  (Does it?)  Ideas?


Later,
David

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