On óÂÔ, 2002-02-23 at 14:38, Pixel wrote: > Borsenkow Andrej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I repeat - you must not create any device in /dev as long as we are > > using devfs. To check for mounted devfs - [ -c /dev/.devfsd ] (or if you > > see ide/... in /proc/partitions :-) > > Ok, i've fixed accordingly... but I hope it won't break a lot of things :-( >
It will "break" partitioning of free disk. I.e. you won't be able to format newly created partition without reboot. I do not have free drive - could you test that after creating new partition and doing blockdev --rereadpt devfs creates nodes for new partition? In this case this problem is solved. For busy disk (i.e. when you add partition for a disk that has some file system mounted) I could not access newly created partition anyway, even with manually created /dev/hdb8, without reboot. So it is not affected. I do not know what happens when you remove partition - are nodes properly unregistered by devfs? In this case running blockdev --rereadpt would do the job as well. -andrej
