[linux-lvm] mount's (&udev's) dirty little naming problem -- (was Inconsistent naming...?)

[Luca Berra]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:57:21AM -0700, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
>   (sorry for the length of this, in advance, but I've tried to give
> this some though...(maybe not enough/maybe too much!) ;-) )
>
> Luca Berra wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 03:16:31AM +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> >> The canonical name to use is /dev/<vgname>/<lvname>. ...
> >>
> >> [~Other forms - dm-N and /dev/mapper/X-Y are internal and ...
> >> there'll probably be some further changes to workaround other
> >> arbitrary
>   udev restrictions...~]
> >>
> >> Different versions of df and mount haven't always retained this
> >> preferred form for their output.
> >>
> > note that on a freshly installed rhel 6.1 i have this in fstab
> >
> > /dev/mapper/vg_candela--lv_root / ext4 ....
>
> ---
>
>   Why are there two dashes between the VG&LG?


woops, typo, sorry for that
it is :
/dev/mapper/vg_candela-lv_root / ext4 defaults 1 1

L.
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Luca Berra -- bluca at comedia.it