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

[Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>]

On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 08:14:21PM -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?

Hmm - you even put this in 2.6.11.8, if I understand correctly.
Was that by mistake?
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