Re: /proc/partitions not done updating when init is ran?

[Marcos D. Marado Torres]

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Is that happening in 2.6.2-rc3-mm1 or up?

If yes, try unsetting nbd in your kernel config.

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On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Nick Bartos wrote:

> I have a problem where it does not look like /proc/partitions is updated
> completely by the time init is ran.
>
> Basically I am booting from a usb flash device, and when I try to run fsck
> on the device on boot (using LABEL=, which is necessary since the actual
> device cannot be assumed in my config) it fails.  After further
> investigation /proc/partitions does not contain any scsi partitions right
> when init is starting, but if I do a "sleep 10" before running fsck then
> it works fine.
>
> I can of course put that sleep in there but that is ugly and I have no way
> of knowing the maximum delay, so if it took too long then it would not
> work and I would be screwed...
>
> Isn't /proc/partitions supposted to be finished updating when init starts?
>  If this is not a kernel bug (or it won't be fixed for a while), then what
> is the deal and how can I fix this cleanly?
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