Force device node link creation

[Christoph Pleger <christoph.pleger@cs.uni-dortmund.de>]

Hello,

I am using a program for automatic creation of a harddisk partitioning 
from a configuration file. That file contains device names like 
/dev/sda1 etc. for naming the partitions. After the partitioning has 
been completed, I want to create an appropriate fstab from the 
configuration file and during that step, want to convert partition 
device name entries to entries in the form UUID=... For that, I am using

udevadm info --query=symlink --name="$device"

where $device is the respective partition. Unfortunaly, the problem 
occurs that often - though partitioning was completed and filesystems 
created -  links in /dev/disk/by-uuid/ are not yet available when 
udevadm is run, so that udevadm returns nothing. So, my question is: Is 
it possible to force the device node links to have been created before 
calling udevadm? Without long sleeps or sleep loops?

Regards
  Christoph