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From: "Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@posting.7eggert.dyndns.org>"  <7eggert@gmx.de>
To: Joe <joecool1029@gmail.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Empty partition nodes not created (was device node issues with recent mm's and udev)
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 05:36:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1DTAgo-0002uD-F0@be1.7eggert.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3ZVNP-5cq-7@gated-at.bofh.it>

Joe <joecool1029@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Some vendors depend on empty partitions not showing up. That's why this
patch was introduced.

BTW: Is there a special reason you why choose "empty"?
Is this partition showing up in other systems at all?
-- 
Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say:
45. Was that YOUR directory?


       reply	other threads:[~2005-05-04  3:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <3ZVNP-5cq-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-05-04  3:36 ` Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@posting.7eggert.dyndns.org> [this message]
2005-05-04  3:49   ` Joe
2005-05-04  4:47     ` Grant Coady
2005-05-04 11:42     ` Bodo Eggert
2005-05-03  2:51 Joe
2005-05-03  3:14 ` Greg KH
2005-05-03  3:26   ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-05-03  4:18     ` Joe
2005-05-03  5:16       ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-05-06  8:04       ` Andries Brouwer
2005-05-06 16:43         ` Bryan Henderson
2005-05-03 10:55     ` Paulo Marques
2005-05-03 23:34       ` Joe
2005-05-06  8:00     ` Andries Brouwer
2005-05-06  8:10       ` Chris Wright
2005-05-06  8:43         ` Andries Brouwer
2005-05-06  9:05           ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-06 14:12             ` James Bottomley
2005-05-06 14:26               ` David Woodhouse
2005-05-06 14:34               ` Kay Sievers
2005-05-06 14:18             ` Kay Sievers
2005-05-06 15:50         ` Greg KH
2005-05-06  7:58   ` Andries Brouwer
2005-05-06  7:57 ` Andries Brouwer

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