On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 05:06:21 +0000 (UTC), Sylvain Robitaille <syl@alcor.concordia.ca> wrote:
>
>Using hot-swappable SCSI drives, I've used "sfdisk -R /dev/$disk" to get
>the kernel to read the partition table of a newly inserted disk. That
>has worked flawlessly for me.

Out of my league I got bitten once with couple IDE drives, didn't
reboot after playing with partition tables prior to formatting some
partitions, wrote 200 GB (80 + 120) zeroes to drives and started over.
It was spending much of the following week loading about 50GB from
backup CDROMs that made the experience stay in mind.

--Grant.