When multipath checks whether or not the multipath device needs to be renamed, it only does the check if dry-run isn't selected. This means that you will instead see all your renames as creates during a dry-run. The attached patch fixes this. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@xxxxxxxxxx> --- libmultipath/configure.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: multipath-tools-090902/libmultipath/configure.c =================================================================== --- multipath-tools-090902.orig/libmultipath/configure.c +++ multipath-tools-090902/libmultipath/configure.c @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ select_action (struct multipath * mpp, v if (!cmpp) { cmpp = find_mp_by_wwid(curmp, mpp->wwid); - if (cmpp && !conf->dry_run) { + if (cmpp) { condlog(2, "%s: rename %s to %s", mpp->wwid, cmpp->alias, mpp->alias); strncpy(mpp->alias_old, cmpp->alias, WWID_SIZE); -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel