On Mon, 2 May 2005 20:14:21 -0700 Greg KH wrote:
| On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 10:51:24PM -0400, Joe wrote:
| > Ok, first off I'd like to say, I am on 2.6.12-rc3-mm2, and this issue
| > is not fixed at all. Secondly, I'd like to say that I've pinpointed
| > it a bit more. It appears only Empty partitions (type 0 in fdisk) do
| > not create device nodes.
| > | > 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.
| | Looks like it might be a scsi issue. Redirecting to that mailing list
| now. Anyone here have a clue?
Could this 2.6.11.8 -stable patch fix it? Subject: [04/07] partitions/msdos.c fix
Joe, can you test 2.6.11.8, please?
It seems to me that this exactly the other way around. The patch is probably already in -mm and is doing what it is supposed to do: don't report partitions whose system ID == 0.
Can you try to give the empty partition a type different than zero? You don't need to make a file system on it or anything, just change the type.
Or check if the patch Randy is pointing to is already in your tree and revert it.
I think this is a good argument not to include this patch on the -stable release...
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