On 2/16/2011 2:38 AM, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > The linux scheme since the dawn of time is to > a) Add the partition number to the device node name > b) If last letter of the device node name is a number, insert a 'p' > between device node name and partition number Since the dawn of time? Before device mapper it wasn't possible to have a disk device name ending in a digit. > with the advent of persistent device names (via udev) the partition > separator (for persistent links only!) is '-part'. > > So you have > > /dev/sda > /dev/sda1 > /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0WhatAStupidName > /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0WhatAStupidName-part1 > > persistent device names are longish anyway, so we can as well use > something readable for partitions. That's fine for the symlinks in by-id, but what about the names in /dev/mapper and /dev/VG? -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
