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Author: Haines Brown
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Plethora of ghost device names
On Fri, Mar 06, 2026 at 03:58:54PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote:
> On Friday 06 March 2026 at 13:12:24, Haines Brown via Dng wrote:
>
> > The /dev/sdd device is 2 TB in size. That is the size of my
> > current SDD drive, which is mounted by means of its UUID and has
> > ten partitions
>
> On Friday 06 March 2026 at 14:51:08, Haines Brown via Dng wrote:
>
> >   #  fdisk -l /dev/sd
> > ....
> > /dev/sdd14       912484352  926255103   13770752  6.6G 83 Linux

>
> > sdd has 46 partitions.
>
> You have confused me again.
>
> You said that /dev./sdd has ten partitions


Can't find where said that.

> then you show the output of a
> command which shows it has 14, now you say that it has 46.


As I pointed out, the number flucuates. At one point it was over
300!

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Haines Brown