Reload the Partition Table of a Disk in GNU/Linux ================================================= Author: Momchil Ivanov Date : 2013.06.16 Introduction ------------ This article describes how to reload the partiotion table of a disk in the GNU/Linux operating system. Motivation ---------- When manipulating the partition table of a disk (more precisely when deleting a partition), one can get an incosistent state of the partitions for the disk lised under the /dev directory. In order to fix this, one has to force the Linux kernel to reload the partition table of the disk. Method 1 -------- Using the utility partx: $ partx -d /dev/sda $ partx -a /dev/sda