From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 07:16:16 +0000 Subject: Re: udev 23 and 4 primary scsi partitions. Message-Id: <20040328071616.GA7226@kroah.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel