On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 20:54 +0100, Robert Spanton wrote: > > What type of partition is yours? Mine's an ext2. I'm thinking of running > > tune2fs to convert it to ext3 to see if that makes a difference. > > Mine's ext3. > > I have suspicions that the problem lies somewhere further down than > the filesystem, because the hard disk partition doesn't actually > appear in sysfs until I run partprobe. > > I'm not quite sure what partprobe pokes though. > > Are you using LVM? THANK YOU, GENTLEMEN!! I thought I'd been around awhile... never recalling hearing of 'partprobe'. I ran it, and have been having a pile of problems with udev, and partprobe reveals that the system thinks I have this: [root@iam My Downloads]# partprobe -s /dev/hda: msdos partitions 1 2 /dev/sda: msdos partitions 1 WTF? I have ext3 partitions and lvm on hda... no wonder udev barfs. How do I safely fix this?? The boot sequence finds ext3 partitions, and everything gets mounted as such, or so I beleive. Something got clobbered during yum upgrade... I suspect. Thanks again for your timely post. Ric
