Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 09:57:00 +0200
From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Joe <joecool1029@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Empty partition nodes not created (was device node issues with recent mm's and udev)
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On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 10:51:24PM -0400, Joe wrote:

> Ok, first off I'd like to say, I am on 2.6.12-rc3-mm2, and this issue
> is not fixed at all.  Secondly, I'd like to say that I've pinpointed
> it a bit more.  It appears only Empty partitions (type 0 in fdisk) do
> not create device nodes.
> 
> Here is the partition table from fdisk, fdisk does run fine.. its just
> the fact this node is not created that threw me off before.
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1   *           1           2       16033+   0  Empty
> /dev/sdb2   *           6        2431    19486845    b  W95 FAT32
> /dev/sdb3               3           5       24097+  83  Linux
> 
> 
> Notice, /dev/sdb1 is a Empty partition... in /dev I only have sdb,
> sdb2, and sdb3.  No sdb1.  Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Joe

Today partition slots with partition type 0 are ignored.

I think you are the 4th I've seen to notice the change.
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