From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andries Brouwer Subject: Re: Why /dev/sdc1 doesn't show up... Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 00:20:04 +0100 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20021117232004.GA1779@win.tue.nl> References: <20021117195258.GC3280@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021117195258.GC3280@redhat.com> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Linux Scsi Mailing List , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Rusty Russell On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 02:52:58PM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote: > Working on a fix. Haven't decided how to do it yet. I encountered similar phenomena with usb-storage. I think the proper solution is to never automatically scan for a partition table. We perhaps need to do that at boot time, but in all other cases user space can ask the kernel to read a partition table. For usb-storage things work fairly well (for some kernels) using blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdx Andries