Hi, I'm having a very weird problem.
% mount /dev/sdb7 /mnt/tmp mount: special device /dev/sdb7 does not exist I.e., my sdb7 is not in my system's device list. But the partition does exist: $ fdisk -l /dev/sdb | grep sdb7 /dev/sdb7 15300 17848 20474842 83 Linux And this is from 'cfdisk /dev/sdb' Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB) ----------------------------------------------------- . . . sdb7 NC Logical Linux 20966.24 sdb8 NC Logical Linux ext3 [os21] 6292.34 sdb9 NC Logical Linux ext3 [os22] 6292.34 . . . Actually, it is not only sdb7 that is missing from my system's device list but many others as well, including sdb8 & sdb9, which all show fine in fdisk, sfdisk, or cfdisk. Just that they are not there: $ ls -l /dev/sdb? brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 17 2011-11-05 14:10 /dev/sdb1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 18 2011-11-05 14:10 /dev/sdb2 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 21 2011-11-05 14:10 /dev/sdb5 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 22 2011-11-05 14:10 /dev/sdb6 This is after I'll issued the 'udevadm trigger' for udev to update my system's device list. I've tried to recreate the device myself: mknod -m 660 /dev/sdb7 b 8 23 $ ls -l /dev/sdb* brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 2011-11-05 14:10 /dev/sdb brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 17 2011-11-05 14:10 /dev/sdb1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 27 2011-11-05 14:10 /dev/sdb11 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 29 2011-11-05 14:10 /dev/sdb13 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 30 2011-11-05 14:10 /dev/sdb14 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 31 2011-11-05 14:10 /dev/sdb15 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 18 2011-11-05 14:10 /dev/sdb2 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 21 2011-11-05 14:10 /dev/sdb5 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 22 2011-11-05 14:10 /dev/sdb6 brw-r--r-- 1 root root 8, 23 2011-11-05 14:14 /dev/sdb7 But somehow it is not working: % mkfs.ext3 -v /dev/sdb7 mke2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) mkfs.ext3: No such device or address while trying to determine filesystem size Please help. Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j940j1$br7$1...@dough.gmane.org