On 5/3/05, Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <7eggert@xxxxxx> wrote: > Joe <joecool1029@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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. > > Some vendors depend on empty partitions not showing up. That's why this > patch was introduced. It would be interesting to see just how important it is to hide this. > BTW: Is there a special reason you why choose "empty"? > Is this partition showing up in other systems at all? Actually, yes there is.. its a firmware partition that would normally not be mounted, but in order to dd new firmware versions to it, I depended on the node... which has ceased to exist. I would like to see an easier workaround then just ignoring it like that, but if its really needed.... Anyways, thanks everyone for the info, its much appreciated. Joe - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
