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Old 03-24-2009, 01:57 AM   #1
ZedLeppelin
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LVM mount as /dev/vg00/lv00 instead of /dev/mapper/vg00-lv00


Hi,

Is there a way of getting LVs mounted via /dev/<VolGroup>/<LogVol> instead of via /dev/mapper/<VolGroup>-<LogVol>?

If I execute the following command:
> mount /dev/vg00/lv00 /oracle

it shows in mount and df as:
"/dev/mapper/vg00-lv00 on /oracle"
I would expect
"/dev/vg00/lv00 on /oracle"

My fstab is set to mount all the LVs as /dev/vg0n/lv0n but, as above, once the system is booted they show up in df and mount as /dev/mapper/vg0n-lv0n. It's not a show-stopper as everything works. It makes the spacing in the df output too big to fit on one screen though, as each entry takes up 2 lines!

Thanks in advance.
 
Old 03-27-2009, 06:29 PM   #2
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Hi,

I am not on my Linux machine right now so I cannot check, but from /dev/vg00/lv00 and /dev/mapper/vg00-lv00 one is a symlink to the other one. So they are 100% equivalent. You should be able to chose on which one you want to mount the fs, the choice is usually done on the kernel line (for the root) or later, in fstab (for the rest, most likely so for oracle).
 
Old 03-29-2009, 05:44 PM   #3
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Thanks. I also found the df -P (POSIX compliant output) formats the df output in a better way than default (combined with the -h option).
 
  


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