Re: udev 23 and 4 primary scsi partitions.

Re: udev 23 and 4 primary scsi partitions.

[Greg KH]

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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Re: udev 23 and 4 primary scsi partitions.

[Vincent van de Camp]

There is a /sys/block/sda/sda4 directory, and this is the first time I 
hear of the devfs script to match old names. So if I'm using that, it's 
not intentionally :)

Thanks,
Vincent

Greg KH wrote:
[...]

>>
> 
> Is there a /sys/block/sda/sda4 directory in your system?
> 
[...]
> 
> 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.
> 



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