New drive already has vfat after new fdisk

[Steven Ringwald]

On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 21:37 +0000, Andy Green wrote:
> Steven Ringwald wrote:
> 
> > If a partition on the drive is mounted when you repartition it, the
> > kernel and the drive's partition table will be out of sync, and
> > subsequent stuff done to the drive will be dubious at best. Better to
> > unmount everything (eject???), fdisk, *possibly* run udevstart to get
> > the hal stuff to see the change, format the partitions, and then see
> > what happens. 
> 
> partprobe

Sweet! Thanks for that. I never have used/seen that command before, but
I am sure will come in very handy for me in other endeavors. 
> 
> sorts this out without a reboot, but in an earlier post the guy said he
> rebooted after the fdisk.

Hm. Then I am at a loss. 

Steve