Bug#704160: kpartx says it will create /dev/loop0p1 but uses other names

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

On Thursday 28 March 2013 11:02 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I did
>    losetup -f /blabla/foo.img
> and then
>    kpartx -l /dev/loop0
> which told me that it was about to create /dev/loop0p1.
> This sounded good so I did
>    kpartx -a /dev/loop0
> which did not create /dev/loop0p1, but instead created
> /dev/dm-6 along with vaious symlinks in /dev/disk/by-id.
>
> The use of dm-6 makes sense from a technical point of vue, and the
> symlinks in /dev/disk are fine, but please add a symlink from
> /dev/loop0p1 since that's the "normal" logical name.

Do you have the multipath-tools package installed ?

-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf
RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com
"Necessity is the mother of invention."


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