New drive already has vfat after new fdisk

[Andy Green]

Steven Ringwald wrote:

> If a partition on the drive is mounted when you repartition it, the
> kernel and the drive's partition table will be out of sync, and
> subsequent stuff done to the drive will be dubious at best. Better to
> unmount everything (eject???), fdisk, *possibly* run udevstart to get
> the hal stuff to see the change, format the partitions, and then see
> what happens. 

partprobe

sorts this out without a reboot, but in an earlier post the guy said he
rebooted after the fdisk.

-Andy
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