Bug 1287734 - blkid on aarch64 uses symlinks for partitions instead of /dev/sdaX
Summary: blkid on aarch64 uses symlinks for partitions instead of /dev/sdaX
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1007734
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: util-linux
Version: 7.2
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
low
low
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Karel Zak
QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-12-02 14:40 UTC by Alexander Todorov
Modified: 2016-05-25 13:40 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of: 1287613
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Last Closed: 2016-05-25 13:40:15 UTC
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Description Alexander Todorov 2015-12-02 14:40:37 UTC
On aarch64 system I get the following output:

# blkid
/dev/block/8:3: UUID="pZQYi9-08YZ-NJog-XmAO-Oo2r-VYx8-HL9JDc" TYPE="LVM2_member" PARTUUID="62467ffe-da20-4ce7-b8ea-aada87278ae2" 
/dev/block/253:0: UUID="29a4aa79-4a58-4eed-8015-09be6dc9c7c0" TYPE="xfs" 
/dev/block/8:2: UUID="e0f87bc3-62cb-4e13-8d3e-4b3e6c4c7345" TYPE="xfs" PARTUUID="bb18b2c5-ee65-4105-92ff-599fc70eee1c" 
/dev/block/8:1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" UUID="74C2-2D99" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="EFI System Partition" PARTUUID="0b8fd564-1b7e-40ec-b78c-1d3aae5c7ce3" 
/dev/block/253:1: UUID="f8af4e03-22fb-4157-915a-5c35b39e0ee0" TYPE="swap" 
/dev/mapper/rhel_apm--mustang--ev3--11-home: UUID="d63e3c3d-c413-46e3-b009-9a178b698f88" TYPE="xfs" 


# ls -l /dev/block/
общо 0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 7  2 дек  9,32 253:0 -> ../dm-0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 7  2 дек  9,32 253:1 -> ../dm-1
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 7  2 дек  9,32 253:2 -> ../dm-2
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 6  2 дек  9,32 8:0 -> ../sda
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 7  2 дек  9,32 8:1 -> ../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 7  2 дек  9,32 8:2 -> ../sda2
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 7  2 дек  9,32 8:3 -> ../sda3


I don't see an option to display the real devices instead of the symlinks and I'm not sure what causes this inconsistency with other platform. 


/proc/mounts shows the devices as /dev/sdaX as well.

Comment 1 Karel Zak 2015-12-03 12:55:11 UTC
sounds like https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1007734

Comment 2 Karel Zak 2016-05-25 13:40:15 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1007734 ***


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