weird partition names? (/dev/.../part7 not hda7)

[Peep]

I just did a clean install of the download edition of 9.2 and things seem to be going smoothly, but this just looks weird to me:

[bill@localhost bill]$ df
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7
                     5.0G  1.1G  3.9G  22% /
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8
                     8.4G  232M  8.2G   3% /home
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
                     2.6G  4.0K  2.6G   1% /mnt/windows

why doesn't it say "hda7" and "hda8" etc? is this a problem, and if so, how do i fix it? thanks

[RainierPeak]

Just wanted to confirm that I have the same, weird issue.

[Peep]

ok, thanks. i probably won't worry about it so much then :P

[roland]

/dev/hdx are links. They point to things like /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/partx

 

roland

[chris z]

i have the same problem/nuisance after upgrading to MDK9.2. after searching a bit, i found the following info.

 

this is a known bug with MDK9.2 & the 2.4.xx kernel. see this BUG REPORT .

 

excerpts from above link:

 

Inside "software" forum, bgmline has posted in the "9.2 changes the way df and

mount report mounted device names" a nice example of the problems created by

this bug. The simple script:

  df |awk '{print $6}' 

works in 9,1, but fails in 9.2, because long devfs-style names cause the

output to appear on two lines insterad of one.

 

note that the kernel-2.6.x was fixed for this problem. 

maybe the fix is simple enough to be backported ?

 

there is a ham handed fix listed that involves editing lilo if ya wanna do it. if it is indeed fixed with the 2.6 kernel, then i'll just deal with it until i can get an rpm of that kernel that works or until (perhaps) a patch is released for the 2.4 kernel.

 

Chris