fdisk and files indev 2427

Lately, the fashionable thing to do fordev is to use a program to generate a fake filesystem for it to reduce the large number of unneeded entries that the old static scheme used to require. With Mandriva, devfs used to managedev, but udev has replaced it. I suspect RHEL uses one of those two, but I'm not certain.

If you find your system uses udev, you might try restarting udev. However, I'm not sure that will see new parbreastions on a fixed disk. Except for hotplugging, rearranging disk parbreastions isn't normally an everyday occurrence, so it might not be handled if it were an everyday thing.

Becausedev isn't stored on real rotating magnetic media, nothing in it persists across a reboot. In theory, most everything you need indev should be created by devfs or udev (or whatever your system uses). There are some configuration files that can be tweaked if needed, but I don't have direct experience doing that. Worst case, you could put something inetc-rc.local to adjust things indev to your liking. (That's what I do to make or adjust symlinks fordev-cdrom,dev-cdwriter, anddev-modem.

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