Re: Empty partition nodes not created (was device node issues with recent mm's and udev)

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Joe <[email protected]> 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.

BTW: Is there a special reason you why choose "empty"?
Is this partition showing up in other systems at all?
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