From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Characters allowed for vg name
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:38:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080319133847.GF12007@agk.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A78DB34D00374344A0AB65B6523C05DC02CDCF5D@marsden.win.datacash.com>
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 01:19:19PM -0000, Gerrard Geldenhuis wrote:
> I have a kickstart file which fails if I use an - character in the
> vgname. Using a _ works fine.
Report a bug?
Hyphens are permitted *inside* VG and LV names, but not as the first
character. There are also some reserved names you cannot use
because of existing /dev entries. (E.g. a VG name of 'null' would clash
with '/dev/null' and '.' and '..' are also banned of course).
> Does anybody know what the allowable characters are for vg, pv and lv
> names?
VG/LV:
a-zA-Z0-9+_.-
(PV names are simply filenames)
Alasdair
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agk@redhat.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-19 13:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-19 13:19 [linux-lvm] Characters allowed for vg name Gerrard Geldenhuis
2008-03-19 13:23 ` Bryn M. Reeves
2008-03-19 13:32 ` Milan Broz
2008-03-19 13:38 ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
2008-03-19 13:47 ` Gerrard Geldenhuis
2008-03-19 14:21 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2008-03-19 18:24 ` Stuart D. Gathman
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