Why reboot after fdisk of external drive?

G'day again, It must be my day for questions. This more for filling in
the blanks than problem solving.

I'm thinking of getting a Maxtor OneTouch IV 250GB external drive, so I
googled other peoples experiences. On 2 sites (below) I found similar
explanations of the steps to get one working under Linux. Both say to
reboot between fdisk and mkfs. Why?

1/ http://www-personal.umich.edu/~hnarayan/maxtor-harddrive-linux.html
2/ http://www.totalpenguin.com/content/view/25/40/


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Regards
Simon

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