On Sat, 17 Nov 2007, Denny Schierz wrote: > root@henrietta ~ # ls /media/backup/angelica-disk/dev/neko/ > hitomi-disk Why would you do this? device nodes in your backup still just point to the device. I suggest mounting your backup volumes with -o nodev,noexec both to prevent possible security problems and to make it clear that the above isn't useful. > ---- > > So, first question, why i have the name from a different volume > (hitomi-disk) in the dev from angelica? Because hitomi-disk is the one that happens to be online at the moment. > root@henrietta ~ # ls /media/backup/hitomi-disk/dev/neko > ls: /media/backup/hitomi-disk/dev/neko: Input/output error > Why i get here an error? Because there isn't a disk online at the moment. -- Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@bmsi.com> Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154 "Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis" - background song for a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial. _______________________________________________ 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/