On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:25:23 +0000 "Andrew Hilborne" <cseoqs002@sneakemail.com> wrote: >--On 11 January 2005 14:24 +0000 "Alasdair G Kergon agk@redhat.com" >wrote:> >> On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 11:42:40PM +0100, messmate wrote: >>> there is somewhat strange with a lv of mine: lv_usr-local. >>> Marked as /dev/mapper/vg1_hda1-lv_usr--local and >>> as /dev/vg1_hda/lv_usr-local ! >>> >>> See the (-) differences. >> >> A hyphen in the name in /dev/mapper separates the volume >> group name from the logical volume name. >> >> If you put hyphens in either of those names they >> get quoted by doubling them up. > >Yes indeed. Sadly (I now feel) I created my VG with the name "VG-1" and >now I see exactly this "problem." > >So far as I can see, I have a VG with this naming issue, some LVs with >*names" which reflect the same problem, and some entries in /etc/fstab >(I'm running Debian on this machine, FWIW) which contain associated >/dev/mapper names. > >Now that someone has brought this up, can someone possibly tell me a >safe way to go about renaming things? I was thinking of something like >"VG1" :) > >-- >Andrew Hilborne > I've named my vg's as vg1_hda , stands for: vg1 =first vg _hda = first hd. The underscore seem safe. mess-mate _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
