[NBLUG/talk] Device node problems

[Troy Arnold]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 11:42:39AM -0700, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> On Monday 17 October 2005 09:11 am, Dean A. Roman wrote:
> > Try running "partprobe /dev/hde"...this should probe the /dev/hde device
> > and update the kernel with the available partitions.
> 
> # partprobe /dev/hde
> bash: partprobe: command not found
> # apt-get install partprobe
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> E: Couldn't find package partprobe
> 
> Since I couldn't find partprobe on my system OR in the apt repository, I did a 
> Google search for partprobe, and while I found several copies of the man 
> page, I couldn't figure out why it isn't on my system or in the apt 
> repository.
> 
> I'm running Debian/Etch; I think I forgot to mention that earlier.

On Sarge and Sid it's in the parted package:
$ apt-file search partprobe
parted: sbin/partprobe

-troy