On Tuesday, 29 August 2017 17:45:48 BST Stroller wrote: > > On 29 Aug 2017, at 16:35, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Is it udev that's responsible for populating the dev nodes? > >> (is that the right terminology?) > >> > >> How do I force it to reconstruct the partition table? Surely one should > >> expect to be able to format or partition a removable drive and have the > >> dev nodes created without the necessity of rebooting?> > > run partprobe and see if that makes a difference. It forces the kernel > > to re-organize it's idea of what partitions are available. > > > > I would have thought SD Cards were treated like regular hotpluggable > > devices like USB storage, but maybe not. I'd be interested to see the > > results of running partprobe. > > $ sudo partprobe -s > /dev/sda: gpt partitions 1 2 3 4 5 > /dev/sdb: msdos partitions 1 > $ > > The following is also dumped to /var/log/messages: > > Aug 29 17:31:13 alrai sudo[20565]: stroller : TTY=pts/1 ; > PWD=/home/stroller ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/bash -c partprobe Aug 29 > 17:31:13 alrai sudo[20565]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user > root by (uid=0) Aug 29 17:31:13 alrai kernel: sdb: sdb1 > Aug 29 17:31:13 alrai kernel: sdb: sdb1 > Aug 29 17:31:13 alrai sudo[20565]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed > for user root > > However no new device nodes are added in /dev. > > This is a headless system, mostly used as a file server. It doesn't run a > desktop (although I've run X11 apps using xpra a few times in the past). > I've never done anything to set up hotplugging. > > Stroller.
This may have been mentioned already, but do you have sys-fs/udisks installed? Check the output of udisksctl status/monitor/info and see what it reveals. Then check if you can mount the device with udiskctl. -- Regards, Mick
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