Hi Geert, > I have a disk that embeds another disk image (including a partition table and > partitions). Using dmsetup and the linear target I created a new device to > access the embedded disk image. Cfdisk shows me the partitions on the new > device, but the kernel didn't scan for partitions and hence didn't created > devices for them. > > Does there exist a way to let the kernel scan for partition tables on a device > created using dmsetup? Or should I use a script like the one proposed by > Christophe Saout in http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/7/18/141? There's a small tool "kpartx" ( http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/kpartx.8.html ), which I think, IIRC is a simple port of the kernel partition detection code to userspace, which uses the device mapper to set things up. I have used it at times, it works nicely (it can even replace the kernel detection code seamlessly, if put into an initramfs for instance). There's a copy of it in the distributed with the multipath tools. -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
