On Fri, 24 May 2013, Gelen James wrote:
centos 6 failed to create entries under /dev for newly created loopback devices. Any one know why? and how to fix/workaround it? The steps to duplicate is pretty simple dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/deleteme bs=1M count=100 losetup /dev/loop0 /tmp/deleteme fdisk /dev/loop0 ## created partitions 1, 2, etc. fdisk -l /dev/loop0 ## confirmed that the partitions do exist
At this point, you need to run "kpartx -a /dev/loop0" (fdisk should have told you so).
mkfs.ext3 /dev/loop0p1 ## failed here [...]
kpartx drops partitions into /dev/mapper, so the actual invocation would be
mkfs.ext3 /dev/mapper/loop0p1You can also use partprobe instead of kpartx, but I'm not as familiar with its operation.
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