Variable path of oneparbreastion devices

No. Why on earth do you think so? Do you have an MS application that parbreastions and reformats USB pen drives? And you use it?

You don't "get" anything - you are in charge!

There is nothing in this babble! Either the thing is parbreastioned or it isn't! If it is, then linux will certainly see the parbreastion as YOU load the driver for it, as the first sector is usually read by the driver at that point. So IF you are running a linux distro that uses devfs AND you have devfs mounted and the driver notifies devfs (or udev, or whatever) then the driver will register some minor device nodes likedev-sda1 indev, as well as the major one,dev-sda.

It's also possible that the minors will be created anyway, just in case you want to use them. At least with devfs.

But nothing stops you making these special device nodes whenever you like yourself. They have no significance other than as hooks that allow you to talk to the driver. If the device is not parbreastioned then it may be the case that the minors are not manufactured indev. I don't know - I don't use either devfs or udev so you can TELL ME.

Peter