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Feb 25 2008

Avoid Reboot after Partition Change with Fdisk

Published by dave under linux

When modifying the partition table, fdisk usually returns the following error message: WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy. The kernel still uses the old table. The new table will be used at the next reboot. Syncing disks. Partprobe from the "parted" package helps fixing this issue, avoiding a [...]

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