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Many system administrators may be in the habit of re-booting their systems to make partition changes visible to the kernel. With Linux, this is not usually necessary. The partprobe command, from the parted package, informs the kernel about changes to partitions.

The GNU Parted disk partition resizing program.GNU Parted is a program that allows you to create, destroy, resize, move and copy hard disk partitions. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks. This package contains the Parted binary and manual page.

Parted currently supports DOS, Mac, Sun, BSD, GPT, MIPS and PC98 disklabels/partition tables, as well as a ‘loop’ (raw disk) type which allows use on RAID/LVM. Filesystems which are currently fully supported are ext2, ext3, fat (FAT16 and FAT32), ReiserFS (with libreiserfs) and linux-swap. Parted can also detect and remove HFS (Mac OS), JFS, NTFS, UFS (Sun and HP), XFS and ASFS/AFFS/APFS (Amiga) filesystems, but cannot create, resize or check these filesystems yet.

Note that ReiserFS support is only enabled if you install the libreiserfs0.3-0 package. Since libreiserfs0.3-0 has been removed from sarge, ReiserFS support is not compiled in the default package.

The nature of this software means that any bugs could cause massive data loss. While there are no known bugs at the moment, they could exist, so please back up all important files before running it, and do so at your own risk.

Now we need to install parted because partprobe is a part of parted package

Install parted in debian

#apt-get install parted

Now this will install partprobe and parted.Partprobe inform the OS of partition table changes. partprobe is a program that informs the operating system kernel of partition table changes, by requesting that the operating system re-read the
partition table.

Syntax

partprobe [-d] [-s] [devices…]

-d Donât update the kernel.
-s Show a summary of devices and their partitions.
-h Show summary of options.
-v Show version of program.

Using partprobe

#partprobe

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