From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (ext-mx12.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.110.17]) by int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p6B1VcMw024564 for ; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:31:38 -0400 Received: from Ishtar.tlinx.org (ishtar.tlinx.org [173.164.175.65]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p6B1Vb2Y017436 for ; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:31:37 -0400 Received: from [192.168.3.140] (Athenae2 [192.168.3.140]) by Ishtar.tlinx.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id p6B1VRhQ009409 for ; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 18:31:29 -0700 Message-ID: <4E1A526F.9090700@tlinx.org> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 18:31:27 -0700 From: "Linda A. Walsh" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [linux-lvm] Inconsistent naming...? Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: LVM general discussion and development I created a snapshot volume "with the name corresponding the volume name-date-time: ll /dev/Home+Space/ total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 8 Jul 10 18:16 Home-2011.07.07-00.00.00 -> ../dm-12 lrwxrwxrwx 1 7 Jul 10 18:16 Home-2011.07.10-09.42.07 -> ../dm-5 Ok and they look that way in 'lvs', but when I mount them, 'df'' (or mount) shows: /dev/mapper/Home+Space-Home--2011.07.07--00.00.00 ^^ ^^ 897M 160K 897M 1% /home/snapdir/@GMT-2011.07.07-00.00.00 /dev/mapper/Home+Space-Home--2011.07.10--09.42.07 1.0T 468G 557G 46% /home/snapdir/@GMT-2011.07.10-09.42.07 Notice the device name. notice how the single dashes are now displayed as two dashes?!?! What up with that? Seems like a bug somewhere... -- though it doesn't **seem** to affect how it work....but it is disturbing...I thought my volume names had mutated somehow...