hotplug event on fdisk ?

Russell King rmk+pcmcia at arm.linux.org.uk
Tue Jul 12 11:44:48 EDT 2005


On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 05:42:52PM +0200, Steven Scholz wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> not sure if this is pcmcia specific.
> 
> But why is /sbin/hotplug called when I am doing
> 
> 	fdisk -l /dev/hda
> 
> (hda is a pcmcia HDD)

IDE rescans partitions whenever you open the device.  Since this is
specific to IDE, please ask IDE folk.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core



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