On Wednesday 04 April 2007 22:04, Noam Meltzer wrote: > I believe that the package on mandriva is called "dmsetup". you're right [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -qa|grep dmsetup dmsetup-1.02.09-1mdv2007.0
> Anyhow, even if that's wrong you should try the following commands: > > ls /dev/mapper/ (existence of this directory is a good sign for > disk-mapper existence) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls /dev/mapper/ control > dmsetup deps (the output of this command should show you the > major and minor number of the devices "enacpsulated" by it) [EMAIL PROTECTED] solomon]# dmsetup deps sdc8: 1 dependencies : (8, 32) sdc14: 1 dependencies : (8, 32) sdc7: 1 dependencies : (8, 32) sdc13: 1 dependencies : (8, 32) sdc6: 1 dependencies : (8, 32) sdc12: 1 dependencies : (8, 32) sdc5: 1 dependencies : (8, 32) sdc11: 1 dependencies : (8, 32) sdc10: 1 dependencies : (8, 32) sdc9: 1 dependencies : (8, 32) OK - I can't say I really understand what this means. For instance: - what are these "dependencies"? - how did they get created? - why only for sdc (not sda or sdb)? As you can see, the "dependencies" exactly match the Linux partitions on /dev/sdc as shown by fdisk -l. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 * 26 19457 156087540 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sdc5 26 1554 12281661 83 Linux /dev/sdc6 1555 1808 2040223+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdc7 1809 4357 20474811 83 Linux /dev/sdc8 4358 6906 20474811 83 Linux /dev/sdc9 6907 8180 10233373+ 83 Linux /dev/sdc10 8181 9454 10233373+ 83 Linux /dev/sdc11 9455 10728 10233373+ 83 Linux /dev/sdc12 10729 12002 10233373+ 83 Linux /dev/sdc13 12003 18631 53247411 83 Linux /dev/sdc14 18632 19457 6634813+ 83 Linux In any case, I will try the advice you gave earlier (although I wonder if un-installing dmsetup would have a similar effect) and see if it helps. > > > I find some occurrences on google like this one: > > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=494987 -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Sent by KMail (KDE 3.5.4) on LINUX Mandriva 2007 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
