[SOLVED] Why is udevd trying to delete all my partitions?!

pmouse · 10-02-2019, 10:28 PM

I see these messages when I boot:

Code:

systemd-udevd[637]: Process '/sbin/partx -d --nr 1-1024 /dev/sdc' failed
...

(repeats for all my discs except sda)

I don't understand what this could be for or if it is something to worry about. It didn't succeed, but seems very odd command to just execute on boot.

berndbausch · 10-02-2019, 11:41 PM

From the man page:

Quote:

This is not an fdisk - adding and removing partitions is not a change of the disk, but just telling the kernel about presence and numbering of on-disk partitions.

(I have seen better documentation)

To me, this means that partx -d removes partitions from the kernel, not the disk. I suspect that the disk-based partition table will be loaded into the kernel later.

pmouse · 10-10-2019, 11:08 PM

Aha! Okay, guess I was thinking of parted. Right. Thanks! Mystery solved.