Partitions on multipath devices do not show up after a reboot

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Issue

  • In some cases not all necessary devices for partitions on multipathed block devices are generated during boot time. It's necessary to run kpartx for the missing partitions.
  • Partion on mpath disk missing

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
    • device-mapper-multipath < 0.4.7-42

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