20 Feb
2015
20 Feb
'15
11:23 a.m.
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 06:04:52PM -0500, Digimer wrote:
You can use parted on running systems just fine. On older systems, the drive with the OS will not update the partition table until you reboot, but repartitioning other drives should be updated fine. Parted will warn you if a reboot is needed.
On newer systems, even the drive under the running OS can be updated without a reboot.
In my experience, linux will reread the partition table as long as NOTHING is using that drive (so nothing is mounted). If it is in use, you need to reboot to get the partition change to take. -- Len Sorensen