From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261222AbTEETDg (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2003 15:03:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261234AbTEETDg (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2003 15:03:36 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:35782 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261222AbTEETDf (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2003 15:03:35 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 20:16:04 +0100 From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk To: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger Cc: Ezra Nugroho , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: partitions in meta devices Message-ID: <20030505191604.GC10374@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <1052153060.29588.196.camel@ezran.goshen.edu> <3EB693B1.9020505@gmx.net> <1052153834.29676.219.camel@ezran.goshen.edu> <3EB69883.8090609@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3EB69883.8090609@gmx.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 06:59:47PM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > OK. Maybe I wasn't clear enough. > 1. Partition a drive > 2. Reboot > 3. Now the kernel should see the partitions and let you create file > systems on them. > > You rebooted and fdisk sees the partitions now. Fine. Please try to > mke2fs /dev/md0p1 > That should work. If it doesn't, devfs could be the problem. No, it should not. And devfs, for once, has nothing to do with it. RAID devices (md*) have _one_ (1) minor allocated to each. Consequently, they could not be partitioned by any kernel - there is no device numbers to be assigned to their partitions. > Could you please tell us which kernel version you're using? What would be much more interesting, which kernel are _you_ using and what device numbers, in your experience, do these partitions get?