ejain
January 16th, 2009, 01:29 AM
This message appears twice while starting up a fresh Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit server install. Doesn't seem to affect anything, but I'm curious what is causing this error message, and if there is a way to suppress it. What's a /dev/.tmp device? Doesn't show up after booting... The following may be relevant:
$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19452 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000080
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 18657 149862321 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 18658 19452 6385837+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 18658 19452 6385806 82 Linux swap / Solaris
$ sudo ls -hal /dev/sd*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 2009-01-13 16:27 /dev/sda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 2009-01-13 16:27 /dev/sda1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 2009-01-13 16:27 /dev/sda2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 5 2009-01-13 16:27 /dev/sda5
$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19452 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000080
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 18657 149862321 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 18658 19452 6385837+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 18658 19452 6385806 82 Linux swap / Solaris
$ sudo ls -hal /dev/sd*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 2009-01-13 16:27 /dev/sda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 2009-01-13 16:27 /dev/sda1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 2009-01-13 16:27 /dev/sda2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 5 2009-01-13 16:27 /dev/sda5