libnvme_reread_partitions(9)

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💅 libnvme_reread_partitions — the libnvme API manual, bestie 🎀

okay so this one is from the libnvme API manual and it's literally the glow-up-your-partition-table function. get into it ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

libnvme_reread_partitions — reread the partition table, no cap 👑

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int libnvme_reread_partitions (struct libnvme_transport_handle *hdl );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • hdl — your transport handle, bestie. that's the whole vibe. 🫶

🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

so basically you're asking the kernel to reread the partition table of a namespace 🎀 — like, "hey bestie, look at this again, it changed." super useful, for example after the namespace has become readable again 💖.

⚠️ but listen — this should only be used for namespace handles, not controllers. fr fr. don't do it to controllers, that's not the vibe 🙈

⭐ RETURN ⭐

  • 0 — slay, the partition table was reread 💅
  • a negative error code — not slay, something went sideways 😭

and that's the whole page, periodt 💜 — brought to you by the libnvme API manual, dated October 2026, libnvme_reread_partitions(9), signing off with main character energy 🌈👑

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