[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#554461: base: Partitions on sd* devices after those with no partitions are not populated into /dev

[Alex Crow]

Package: base
Severity: important

I have four drives in the system: /dev/sda holds a standard, all-on-one partition plus a swap partition for the OS.

/dev/sdb and /dev/sdc are unpartitioned and are members of a software RAID5 array that also includes /dev/sdd1. However even though the kernel shows sdd,sdd1 (and sdd2, which is just an extra bit of storage I want to export via NFS, I do *not* get any devices in /dev for sdd1 or sdd2. Only /dev/sdd is present, and so I cannot assemble my full array properly.

I think that this might be a bug in udev, but I can't identify and rule that might be blocking the creation of nodes for the sddX partitions.

Thanks

Alex

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash