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From: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:04:55 +0000
Subject: Re: udev RUN+=: device but no partitions
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I wonder if this could be a timing problem.  The disk is discovered before
it's partitions are discovered... if your script gets called in that time
window between the two, you would get the results you describe.

Matt

On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 06:35:05PM -0400, Dick Repasky wrote:
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> If I use udev to run a script when a usb disk device appears, the device =
file
> for the whole device is available in the script but device files for part=
itions
> on the device are not.
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> Example: usb thumbdrive that appears as sdb and has one partition sdb1.
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> Udev entry
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> KERNEL=3D=3D"sdb", RUN+=3D"/usr/local/sbin/check-sdb"
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> In check-sdb, if I run either "ls /dev/sdb*" or find /dev -name "sdb*", o=
nly
> /dev/sdb appears but not /dev/sdb1.  Is that behavior correct?  When the =
same
> script is run from the command-line, the partition device file appears.
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> My system is Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy) running udev-117-8.
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> Thanks,
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> Dick Repasky
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