Thanks, I did report it as a bug via Redhat support. I have ended up pasting the mailinglist response in the support ticket after a week of no positive response. Would you aggree that a short note about allowable names should be added to man lvm? If yes, then I don't mind creating a patch. Regards > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-lvm-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:linux-lvm-bounces@redhat.com] > On Behalf Of Alasdair G Kergon > Sent: 19 March 2008 13:39 > To: LVM general discussion and development > Subject: Re: Characters allowed for vg name > > 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
