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On Tuesday, 29 August 2017 17:45:48 BST Stroller wrote: |
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> > On 29 Aug 2017, at 16:35, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> Is it udev that's responsible for populating the dev nodes? |
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> >> (is that the right terminology?) |
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> >> |
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> >> How do I force it to reconstruct the partition table? Surely one should |
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> >> expect to be able to format or partition a removable drive and have the |
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> >> dev nodes created without the necessity of rebooting?> |
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> > run partprobe and see if that makes a difference. It forces the kernel |
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> > to re-organize it's idea of what partitions are available. |
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> > I would have thought SD Cards were treated like regular hotpluggable |
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> > devices like USB storage, but maybe not. I'd be interested to see the |
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> > results of running partprobe. |
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> |
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> $ sudo partprobe -s |
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> /dev/sda: gpt partitions 1 2 3 4 5 |
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> /dev/sdb: msdos partitions 1 |
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> $ |
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> |
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> The following is also dumped to /var/log/messages: |
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> |
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> Aug 29 17:31:13 alrai sudo[20565]: stroller : TTY=pts/1 ; |
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> PWD=/home/stroller ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/bash -c partprobe Aug 29 |
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> 17:31:13 alrai sudo[20565]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user |
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> root by (uid=0) Aug 29 17:31:13 alrai kernel: sdb: sdb1 |
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> Aug 29 17:31:13 alrai kernel: sdb: sdb1 |
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> Aug 29 17:31:13 alrai sudo[20565]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed |
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> for user root |
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> However no new device nodes are added in /dev. |
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> This is a headless system, mostly used as a file server. It doesn't run a |
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> desktop (although I've run X11 apps using xpra a few times in the past). |
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> I've never done anything to set up hotplugging. |
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> Stroller. |
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This may have been mentioned already, but do you have sys-fs/udisks installed? |
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Check the output of udisksctl status/monitor/info and see what it reveals. |
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Then check if you can mount the device with udiskctl. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |