From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 1 20:16:42 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B8991065672 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2011 20:16:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahman.linux@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qw0-f54.google.com (mail-qw0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB9DB8FC2D for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2011 20:16:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwj9 with SMTP id 9so6949615qwj.13 for ; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 12:16:41 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=q/1XmxXh9VOYybMs3XoLsWbLS2Gzgy/sFVI6P+Qg8NY=; b=XQI0s8GVVVCICYLxqELPjQGQeJMMdQfiCfQfWMmQH2AVlz7z4Ug5HbB7Ec6sVlbzn7 JM3lWCQwtVuO1uqGXT9Eiapm1QlXszKCMA0XPikST5vjzP4JdIVleOXZWX1CYIlemXL1 gRln7QZOE8ZVqCIl2L+/mE2ObIV1AF8/HDw4U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=x3j3qn6eMgt644GLC9Y/VcTNYuaJE68qydvVaJKfBKV587WdBMGI39KkpJyykjEkSP Rgg4ecooMfnReqEp5XE5lbMBslX1atVXhJozaI8axGROhhARGSUpj+OhqdVDVbbAnE0K AN/Vh06HZehq6vYlzqubW5koQSsw53Zlc/hxU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.37.20 with SMTP id v20mr7856743qad.216.1296591400768; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 12:16:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.220.195.137 with HTTP; Tue, 1 Feb 2011 12:16:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 23:46:40 +0330 Message-ID: From: Bahman Kahinpour To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Make FreeBSD read the slice table and partition table again X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 20:16:42 -0000 Hello When I destroy the partition table with the following command: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad1 bs=1k count=10 The entries /dev/ad1s1a, ... still exist in /dev. This means that the kernel has not found out that the slices and partitions do not exist anymore. How may I make the kernel read the slice/partition table again? Something like modprobe command in Linux? Thanks in advance