> Out of interest why are you using the length of the device name as a discriminator? In my case I am the one who creates these devices so I fully control the naming scheme, however there are other components in our product that might create device mapper targets and I shouldn't filter them out. _______________________________________________ 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/