On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 12:52:54PM +0000, C'est Pierre wrote: > Could someone tell me what exactly are these dm-1 through dm-N devices? Internal kernel names for the devices. With current kernels, -N is the minor number, but that may change in future (if we use more than one major number). dmsetup info -j 253 -m 1 (for dm-1 if the dm major number is 253) Alasdair -- agk@redhat.com _______________________________________________ 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/