so can anyone help me figure this out? so can anyone help me figure this out? I'm making two volume
groups, called vg1 and vg2 respectively. when I make the first one, and run the mount command to
make sure everything went smoothly, I get the line "/dev/gv1/lvm1" and then I go do the second one.
however when I make the second one, and run mount; I'll get the line "/dev/mapper/vg2-lvm2" can
anyone explain why this happens with identical volume groups? and how I do fix it so that its not
"/dev/mapper" but "/dev/vg2/lvm2"?

and yeah, everything works fine, I'm just wondering what is up with that /dev/mapper and why is it involved with the second one but not the first one.

7/21/2007 7:33:28 AM

Are there any volumes common to both groups?

7/21/2007 11:06:24 AM

What you should be seeing is this:

You should have two entries:

/dev/mapper/vg1-lvm1
/dev/mapper/vg2-lvm2

And then simply have two symlinks that point back to those:

/dev/vg1/lvm1 -> /dev/mapper/vg1-lvm1
/dev/vg2/lvm2 -> /dev/mapper/vg2-lvm2

So essentially, they should exist in both places.

Does the lvm1 not exist in /dev/mapper as well?

Does the lvm2 not exist in /dev/vg2/ as well?

7/21/2007 7:50:23 PM