Bug 447623

Description of problem:

if a hard drive with existing partitions is repartitioned mkfs and subsequent
mounts still use the previous partition settings.  New partitioning scheme is
not active until after a reboot.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Fedora 9 Live KDE running from CD

How reproducible:

I've only tried it once as I was repartitioning my system disk. The system was
originally set up as part of an FC3 install.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. repartition an existing disk so that a larger partition is subdivided into
several smaller partitions.  I had a three partitions initially, boot, root and
swap (see below).  I deleted the root and swap and made it into three roughly
equal partitions and a swap partition.  The boot partition stayed the same at
the front of the disk.  I used fdisk to repartition.
2. mkfs (ext3 was what I used) on the new partition, it will use the old size of
the second root partition.
3. mount the new partition it will report the size of the old partition.
  
Actual results:

file system of the old partition size

Expected results:

file system of the new partition size.

Additional info:

the original disk layout was something like (sorry I did not keep the exact
layout, but the cylinder numbers are correct):

Disk /dev/sda: 79.9 GB, 79998951424 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9725 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/sda2              14        9471    ????????+  83  Linux
/dev/sda3            9472        9725     2040223+  82  Linux swap


The following is the new disk layout:

Disk /dev/sda: 79.9 GB, 79998951424 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9725 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/sda2              14        2446    19543072+  83  Linux
/dev/sda3            2447        4879    19543072+  83  Linux
/dev/sda4            4880        9725    38925495    5  Extended
/dev/sda5            4880        9471    36885208+  83  Linux
/dev/sda6            9472        9725     2040223+  82  Linux swap

I tried to mkfs and mount /dev/sda2 and got the old sda2 partition size from before.