On Thursday 22 February 2007 20:58, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > James Wilkinson wrote: > > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > >> Kudzu should find the disk when you add it. > > > > I'm not sure that it is kudzu these days -- as I understand it, the > > hotplug system should detect it on boot, and udev should add a /dev/sda > > device node. > > Udev rather then hotplug. Hotplug is on the way out. It isn't even > used when you plug in USB devices any more. It is supposed to be > able to use hotplug scripts, but I think that is broken. At least it > does not work for my GPS or REB1100. (I files a bug report on the > GPS, but not the REB1100, as I broke the REB1100, and can't really > test that any more.) But Kudzu should at least update > /etc/sysconfig/hwconf. > > >> I am not sure > >> what happens when you reboot after partitioning the disks - it would > >> be interesting to see if the partitions would get auto-mounted off > >> of /media if you do not have entries for them in fstab. > > > > I would think that highly unlikely, because the disks would not have > > filesystems on them. Anne would have to mke2fs new filesystems before > > they could be mounted. > > I am not sure how the system would handle it - the partition type > might cause the system to look for a specific type of file system, > and a label. The logs would be interesting in any case. I guess I'll > have to look at the HAL rules... > > > What I'm not sure about is whether suitable device nodes will be created > > when Anne either creates new partitions or a new logical volume (e.g. > > /dev/sda1, if she creates one large traditional partition). I don't know > > if there's any way to get the system to rescan the disk short of > > rebooting. > > They would be created on a reboot. I think they would also be > created if you use "hdparm -z <drive>" to re-read the partition > table. Then again, fdisk tries to do an update when you write the > partition table to disk... > > > In any case, my experience is that FC6 won't auto-mount partitions on > > non-removable media. > > I have not played with it, that is why I was wondering what the > system would do... > I thought that udev and hal only dealt with removeable drives? Anne
