Re: Empty partition nodes not created (was device node issues with recent mm's and udev)

[Joe <joecool1029@gmail.com>]

On 5/3/05, Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@posting.7eggert.dyndns.org>
<7eggert@gmx.de> wrote:
> Joe <joecool1029@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Here is the partition table from fdisk, fdisk does run fine.. its just
> > the fact this node is not created that threw me off before.
> >
> >    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/sdb1   *           1           2       16033+   0  Empty
> > /dev/sdb2   *           6        2431    19486845    b  W95 FAT32
> > /dev/sdb3               3           5       24097+  83  Linux
> >
> > Notice, /dev/sdb1 is a Empty partition... in /dev I only have sdb,
> > sdb2, and sdb3.  No sdb1.  Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Some vendors depend on empty partitions not showing up. That's why this
> patch was introduced.

It would be interesting to see just how important it is to hide this. 
 
> BTW: Is there a special reason you why choose "empty"?
> Is this partition showing up in other systems at all?

Actually, yes there is.. its a firmware partition that would normally
not be mounted, but in order to dd new firmware versions to it, I
depended on the node... which has ceased to exist.

I would like to see an easier workaround then just ignoring it like
that, but if its really needed....

Anyways, thanks everyone for the info, its much appreciated.

Joe