From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev 23 and 4 primary scsi partitions.
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 07:16:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040328071616.GA7226@kroah.com> (raw)
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 05:41:45PM -0500, Vincent van de Camp wrote:
> Hey Greg,
>
> I not sure if this is a known problem already, I couldn't find anything
> about known problems in the FAQ. That's why I'm asking you directly:)
How about asking this on the linux-hotplug-devel list, I've added it to
the cc: for others to chime in.
>
> I have a computer with a SCSI harddrive that has four partitions as follows:
>
> /dev/sda1 NTFS
> /dev/sda2 Linux /boot
> /dev/sda3 Linux swap
> /dev/sda4 Linux /
>
> The device files in the /dev directory are links to
> /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1-part4
>
> I've recently moved this computer off of devfs to udev-23, but for some
> reason, a node for /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 with a link
> from /dev/sda4 to it is not automatically created. All others (sda1 -
> sda3) are. I had to create part4 myself and created a link sda4 to it in
> /dev and it worked.
Is there a /sys/block/sda/sda4 directory in your system?
>
> As said, I'm not sure if you know about this or not. If you do, then
> please disregard this message. If not, then if you need more
> information, feel free to ask:)
>
> FYI: This is the fifth or sixth setup that I've moved from devfsd to
> udev. I've also done a couple of new installs using 2.6 (including 2.6.x
> headers), but this was the first computer that caused me problems while
> moving to udev.
Glad to hear it, but I don't use the devfs script to match the old
names, so I might not be much help here.
thanks,
greg k-h
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