On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 01:19:19PM -0000, Gerrard Geldenhuis wrote: > I have a kickstart file which fails if I use an - character in the > vgname. Using a _ works fine. Report a bug? Hyphens are permitted *inside* VG and LV names, but not as the first character. There are also some reserved names you cannot use because of existing /dev entries. (E.g. a VG name of 'null' would clash with '/dev/null' and '.' and '..' are also banned of course). > Does anybody know what the allowable characters are for vg, pv and lv > names? VG/LV: a-zA-Z0-9+_.- (PV names are simply filenames) 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/
