[plug] Disk space follow-up

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Wed Jun 14 23:05:57 WST 2006


Patrick Coleman wrote:

> Thats normal. AFAIK, there's no difference between /dev/mapper/VG-LV
> and /dev/VG/LV, it just appears to be different syntax for the same
> thing. Someone else may know exactly why this is the case :)

I don't know _why_, besides what you've already said, but a note for
people using recent Debian (post-Sarge) or Ubuntu (post-Hoary): you want
to use the /dev/mapper/VG-LV syntax in /etc/fstab or your machine
probably won't boot.  The mkinitramfs script that generates the initrd
which mounts your root filesystem is "dumb" and looks for /dev/mapper to
decide whether or not to include LVM in the initrd.

Cameron




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