Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751467AbWJPGnm (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:43:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751478AbWJPGnm (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:43:42 -0400 Received: from twinlark.arctic.org ([207.7.145.18]:53657 "EHLO twinlark.arctic.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751467AbWJPGnm (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:43:42 -0400 Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 23:43:41 -0700 (PDT) From: dean gaudet To: Andries Brouwer cc: Neil Brown , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe Subject: Re: Why aren't partitions limited to fit within the device? In-Reply-To: <20061016064039.GB3090@apps.cwi.nl> Message-ID: References: <17710.54489.486265.487078@cse.unsw.edu.au> <1160752047.25218.50.camel@localhost.localdomain> <17714.52626.667835.228747@cse.unsw.edu.au> <20061016064039.GB3090@apps.cwi.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 548 Lines: 17 On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Andries Brouwer wrote: > A funny effect might be that hda5 exists, hda6 does not, and hda7 exists again. > Maybe unexpected for some software. why would that be unexpected? that seems entirely normal these days with udev... # ls /dev/hda? /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2 /dev/hda5 -dean - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/