Oops ... do we have a new "feature"? I do not like this one.
Whereas, the results of "df" was something of the form:
/dev/mapper/<whatever>
I am now getting on my f12 alpha/rawhide sytem:
/dev/dm-<number>
Doing a little search of the mailing list archives, I find the entry dated
around 2 July:
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e2fsprogs-1.41.4-12.fc11 (FEDORA-2009-7278)
Utilities for managing ext2, ext3, and ext4 filesystems
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ChangeLog:
* Wed Jun 24 2009 Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> 1.41.4-12
- blkid: use /dev/mapper/<name> vs /dev/dm-<N> (#497259)
* Thu Jun 18 2009 Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> 1.41.4-11
- Update journal backup blocks in sb after resize (#505339)
- Fix memory leak in extent handling functions
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #505339 - error still found with fsck after resizing during live
image creation
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505339
[ 2 ] Bug #507461 - blkid returns dm-* for UUIDs instead of /dev/mapper name
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507461
[ 3 ] Bug #497259 - F10-F11: /dev/dm-N devices cause loss of all rescue
ability
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=497259
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Is this new "feature" something we are going to have to live with??
Gene
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