On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 02:29:36PM +0000, Hugo Mills wrote:
>    If, instead, the initial losetup call tracked the symlinks back to
> the original device node (i.e. something like "/dev/sdb3", or
> "/dev/mapper/ruthven-btest" in my example), then the name that's
> stored in the kernel would be shorter, and we'd be less likely to see
> the truncation. This is what my copy of losetup seems to be doing. I
> can't see any distribution-specific patches in the source for
> util-linux that would do this, though.

   Hmm... Just had a thought: is
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-INTEL_SSDSA2M160G2GC_CVPO939201JX160AGN-part3 on
your system a symlink or a device node? What does ls -l say?

   Hugo.

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