BTW, here's a proposed update for the man page: diff --git a/man/dmsetup.8 b/man/dmsetup.8 index 5b2ed9f..74a5f1b 100644 --- a/man/dmsetup.8 +++ b/man/dmsetup.8 @@ -341,6 +341,11 @@ for creating devices with holes in them. .br 2056320 2875602 linear /dev/hdb 1028160 +.SH FILES +These commands normally operate on files in \fB/dev\fP. +However, if you set the DM_DEV_DIR environment variable to some +other absolute directory name, they will use it instead. + .SH AUTHORS Original version: Joe Thornber (thornber@xxxxxxxxxxx) -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
