Re: [PATCH] idea to automatic LVM naming

[Seth Vidal <skvidal fedoraproject org>]

On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 14:59 +0200, Martin Sivak wrote:

> If the user want to install lots of machines with some consistency, he
> could use kickstart partitioning but I would use the hostname naming as
> default.
> 
> > Could you make the volgroup name be the same but put the hostname
> > +mountpointname in the lv name? for example:
> > 
> > /dev/volgroup00/myhost-srv
> > /dev/volgroup00/myhost-home
> > /dev/volgroup00/myhost-root
> 
> Wouldn't that cause troubles when you move the drive to different
> machine? LVM doesn't like two volgroups with same name in one box.

Right, I forgot about that.

yah then /dev/hostname/mountpoint

-sv