Re: proc filesystem

[Ravi K <kravi26@yahoo.com>]

> i have this PXE kernel and it does not update
> my /proc/partitions file even after i make changes 
> using fdisk. 
> Is there a specific daemon or utility
> that must be run to get the desired changed in the
> proc filesystem

 There isn't any utility to do this. The disk driver
has to add the partition information to a global list
maintained by the kernel. This is done by calling
add_gendisk(). It is possible that your disk driver is
not doing this.

Ravi.

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