On Thursday 04 January 2007 16:48, Frans Pop wrote: > 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.
This is definitely not udev devfs compatibility code as that only affects what's in /dev/discs/.... This issue is in /dev/ide/..., so this is either the kernel or "regular" udev device creation code.
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