Re: Empty partition nodes not created (was device node issues with recent mm's and udev)

[Andries Brouwer]

On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 08:26:20PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Mon, 2 May 2005 20:14:21 -0700 Greg KH wrote:
> 
> | On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 10:51:24PM -0400, Joe wrote:
> | > Ok, first off I'd like to say, I am on 2.6.12-rc3-mm2, and this issue
> | > is not fixed at all.  Secondly, I'd like to say that I've pinpointed
> | > it a bit more.  It appears only Empty partitions (type 0 in fdisk) do
> | > not create device nodes.
> | > 
> | > Here is the partition table from fdisk, fdisk does run fine.. its just
> | > the fact this node is not created that threw me off before.
> | > 
> | >    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> | > /dev/sdb1   *           1           2       16033+   0  Empty
> | > /dev/sdb2   *           6        2431    19486845    b  W95 FAT32
> | > /dev/sdb3               3           5       24097+  83  Linux
> | > 
> | > 
> | > Notice, /dev/sdb1 is a Empty partition... in /dev I only have sdb,
> | > sdb2, and sdb3.  No sdb1.  Any help would be appreciated.
> | 
> | Looks like it might be a scsi issue.  Redirecting to that mailing list
> | now.  Anyone here have a clue?
> 
> Could this 2.6.11.8 -stable patch fix it?
> Subject: [04/07] partitions/msdos.c fix
> 
> Joe, can you test 2.6.11.8, please?

No, there is no problem but an intentional change in behaviour in -mm
and now also in 2.6.11.8.

Andries
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