Messages in this thread | | | From | Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.40-pre1: Partition Enumeration | Date | Fri, 14 Jan 2000 20:04:34 +0100 (CET) |
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> > Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3467 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 1 9 72261 83 Linux > /dev/hda2 10 264 2048287+ a5 BSD/386 > /dev/hda3 * 265 902 5124735 63 GNU HURD or SysV > /dev/hda4 903 3467 20603362+ 5 Extended > /dev/hda5 903 968 530113+ 82 Linux swap > /dev/hda6 969 1733 6144831 83 Linux > /dev/hda7 1734 2116 3076416 6 FAT16 > /dev/hda8 2117 3467 10851876 83 Linux > # grep hda /proc/partitions > 3 0 27852048 hda > 3 1 72261 hda1 > 3 2 2048287 hda2 > 3 3 5124735 hda3 > 3 4 1 hda4 > 3 5 4795402 hda5 > 3 6 208845 hda6 > 3 7 17 hda7 > 3 8 8015 hda8 > 3 9 24097 hda9 > 3 10 8032 hda10 > 3 11 530113 hda11 > 3 12 6144831 hda12 > 3 13 3076416 hda13 > 3 14 10851876 hda14 > 3 15 1843200 hda15 > 3 16 205087 hda16 > > see, my rootfs switched from /dev/hda6 to /dev/hda12.
This is old-known problem and it seems there is no good solution of it. The only I know is (potentially) devfs naming convention.
Changing the sequence of second-level partition initialization doesn't solve this problem. (it only moves problem from extended to BSD/Unixware/Solaris partitions)
I agree with you that this behaviour is bad, but do you have any suggestions of solving this problem which do not hit the minor number per disk limitations ?
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