On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 02:29:36PM +0000, Hugo Mills wrote: > If, instead, the initial losetup call tracked the symlinks back to > the original device node (i.e. something like "/dev/sdb3", or > "/dev/mapper/ruthven-btest" in my example), then the name that's > stored in the kernel would be shorter, and we'd be less likely to see > the truncation. This is what my copy of losetup seems to be doing. I > can't see any distribution-specific patches in the source for > util-linux that would do this, though.
Hmm... Just had a thought: is /dev/disk/by-id/ata-INTEL_SSDSA2M160G2GC_CVPO939201JX160AGN-part3 on your system a symlink or a device node? What does ls -l say? Hugo. -- === Hugo Mills: hugo@... carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === PGP key: 515C238D from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk --- But people have always eaten people, / what else is there to --- eat? / If the Juju had meant us not to eat people / he wouldn't have made us of meat.
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