Re: partprobe overwrites partition table?

[Bryn M. Reeves]

Dimitris Zilaskos wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was trying to get the kernel reread the status of the disks in
> one raid controller after creating a new arrray. I erroneously
> thought partprobe would do that. But running it had a nasty side
> affect: It probed a different array in another controller which had
> a GPFS filesystem and had no partition table, but was in the past
> partitioned with parted. It mentioned that it found a backup
> partition table, and then overwrote the current partition table
> with the one from the backup.

Red Hat bugzilla 247278:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=247278

> I am using parted-1.6.19-19.EL.x86_64 on rhel 4

Fixed packages were released last July:

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0698.html

Please update to parted-1.6.19-22.EL.

Regards,
Bryn.