lvm logical volume paths

[Furnish, Trever G]

That's a quirk of LVM2, which is implemented using the device mapper
instead of traditional files under /dev.  If you do a long listing of
/dev/VolGroup00 you'll see that where you used to see device files
named, for example, lvol1, lvol2, lvol3, etc, you instead now see these
same names used as symbolic links pointing to the device mapper
versions. 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Johan Booysen
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 10:39 AM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: lvm logical volume paths
> 
> hi all,
>  
> my apologies if this is a stupid question.  this relates to a 
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 2.6.18-8.el5xen installation 
> (i know bits and pieces about linux, but have much to still learn).
>  
> why, when i cat fstab, do i get this:
>  
> # cat /etc/fstab
> ...
> ...
> /dev/VolGroup00/data1   /data1                  ext3    defaults
> 1 2
> /dev/VolGroup00/data2   /data2                  ext2    defaults
> 1 2
> ...
> ...
>  
> but when doing df i get "mapper" included in the output.
>  
> # df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-data1
>                       473G  198M  449G   1% /data1
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-data2
>                       473G   70M  449G   1% /data2
> ...
> 
> i'd appreciate your insights.
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