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Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 13:37:49 +0100
From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
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Subject: Re: removable media revalidation - udev vs. devfs or static /dev
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On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 11:51:33AM +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:

> yes. So what - how does it help? User needs /dev/sda4. User has /dev/sda only. 
> Any attempt to refer to /dev/sda4 simply returns "No such file or directory"

Things are far from perfect here, but "blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sda" helps.