Unable to access a newly created partition on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Issue
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We attempted to create a new partition to a system volume by using the parted command. However, the parted command reported the following error.
# parted -s /dev/sda mkpart primary 44502MiB 100000MiB Warning: WARNING: the kernel failed to re-read the partition table on /dev/sda (Device or resource busy). As a result, it may not reflect all of your changes until after reboot.
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Using fdisk to create a new partition results warning messages (same messages as above)
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Using
partprobe
to add newly created partitions worked in RHEL5 but now only print out the above warning message -
Modifying a disk's partition table using parted to add, remove or resize partitions fails to create /dev entries.
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Attempting to use partprobe to refresh the partition table information known by the kernel fails.
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partprobe
command fails to reread the partition table -
How do we add newly created disk partitions on RHEL6?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL6)
- parted v2.1
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