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From: "Bryn M. Reeves" <breeves@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 13:23:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47E113C4.1050503@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A78DB34D00374344A0AB65B6523C05DC02CDCF5D@marsden.win.datacash.com>

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Gerrard Geldenhuis wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have a kickstart file which fails if I use an - character in the
> vgname. Using a _ works fine. I did not see any reference to allowable
> characters in the man pages. The man pages only makes mention off
> allowable characters for tags.
> 
> Does anybody know what the allowable characters are for vg, pv and lv names?

The '-' character is allowed:

# vgrename t0 t0-foo
  Volume group "t0" successfully renamed to "t0-foo"

Sounds like this is the installer enforcing an additional restriction.

What distribution/version are you using?

Regards,
Bryn.

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-19 13:32 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 [this message]
2008-03-19 13:32 ` Milan Broz
2008-03-19 13:38 ` Alasdair G Kergon
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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