A storage administrator added a new primary partition to a drive and wants to create a filesystem without rebooting. Which of the following commands will allow this to happen?

The correct answer is C. partprobe. After creating a partition with fdisk, you cannot add a file system to that partition unless the kernel can read it from the partition table. You might receive an error like"Re-reading the partition table failed" during the fdisk operation. Rebooting the machine updates the…

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Afdisk
Bfsck2
Cpartprobe
Dparted

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Explanation

After creating a partition with fdisk, you cannot add a file system to that partition unless the kernel can read it from the partition table. You might receive an error like"Re-reading the partition table failed" during the fdisk operation. Rebooting the machine updates the table, or you can issue partprobe instead to update the table without a reboot.

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#partprobe#partition table#kernel rescan#disk management

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