Hi Klaus, On 10:14 Tue 25 Mar , Klaus Aehlig wrote: > > > - kpartx -a -p- $blockdev > /dev/null > > + kpartx -a -s -p- $blockdev > /dev/null > > When was the -s option added to kpartx? I still > have a test cluster (running "Debian GNU/Linux 6.0") > where kpartx does not accept the -s option. > > However, if it is present in all stable versions of Debian > (debootstrap is pretty debian-specific anyway) I'll go forward > and push it.
Wheezy's version has it, it was introduced in multipath-tools 0.4.9, squeeze doesn't have it. The alternative would be to wait using: udevadm settle --exit-if-exists=/dev/<partition> or (uglier) to spin in bash until the device appears. Just for the record, this race would always fail on my system (kernel 3.13 + systemd-udevd).
