On Friday 29 December 2006 21:45, Karsten Merker wrote: > "The following partitions are going to be formatted: > partition #3 of IDE1 master, partition # (hda) as ext3 > partition #7 of IDE1 master, partition # (hda) as ext3 > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Karsten has mailed me the full partman log privately, and from that the cause of the problem shows very clearly. The device that is passed to partman is: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part The code in partman that interprets this expects either: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 But in this case, "part" without a partition number seems to be used for the whole disk, which perfectly explains the display as a partition without partition number. We could support this in the relevant partman function, but I'd like to know if this use of "part" to indicate the whole disk is valid first. It could also be a bug, either in the kernel or in udev's devfs compatibility code. So, my follow-up questions: - what is the output of 'cd /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/; ls -l'? - what is the non-devfs representation of this disk (e.g. /dev/hda*) and what devices are present for that? - what driver is being used for this disk controller? Cheers, FJP
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