Re: /proc/partitions broken in 2.5.23

[Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 01:32:33PM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote:

 > >   22     0 1515870810 hdc
 > >   22    64 1515870810 hdd
 > >    3     0   29316672 hda
 > >    3     1     117400 hda1
 > >    3     2          1 hda2
 > >    3     5     999904 hda5
 > >    3     6    1499872 hda6
 > >    3     7     683392 hda7
 > >    3     8   26015944 hda8
 > >    3    64 1515870810 hdb
 > I changed something here a few weeks ago. The idea was to avoid
 > listing partitions of size 0 but do list full devices, regardless
 > of size. Especially in case of removable media that is useful.
 > For example, a
 > 	blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sda
 > might show that there is something there now.

Seems it doesn't handle the case of 'no media in drive' too well.
hdc - cdrom, hdd - zip drive, hdb - no device there.

hda2 is odd looking too showing a #blocks of '1', when
it's actually..

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda2           234     58168  29199240    5  Extended 


Oddly, on another machine, it detects an LS-120 drive with
no media correctly..
  22    64          0 hdd

(but still gets the 'no device' case wrong on that box).

        Dave.

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