Re: partprobe overwrites partition table?

[Dimitris Zilaskos]

> 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.


Thanx a lot! I must now understand how this update never made it...


Cheers,

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