From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
To: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Cc: "Alasdair G. Kergon" <agk@redhat.com>, LVM <lvm-devel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Re: [lvm-devel] Allow $DM_DEVDIR envvar to override default of "/dev".
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:04:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lkacxznj.fsf@rho.meyering.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r6k4y03r.fsf@rho.meyering.net> (Jim Meyering's message of "Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:54:32 +0200")
Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> wrote:
> BTW, here's a proposed update for the man page:
>
> diff --git a/man/dmsetup.8 b/man/dmsetup.8
> index 5b2ed9f..74a5f1b 100644
> --- a/man/dmsetup.8
> +++ b/man/dmsetup.8
> @@ -341,6 +341,11 @@ for creating devices with holes in them.
> .br
> 2056320 2875602 linear /dev/hdb 1028160
>
> +.SH FILES
> +These commands normally operate on files in \fB/dev\fP.
> +However, if you set the DM_DEV_DIR environment variable to some
> +other absolute directory name, they will use it instead.
I'm redoing it like LVM_SYSTEM_DIR in lvm.8.
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From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
To: lvm-devel@redhat.com
Subject: [dm-devel] Re: [lvm-devel] Allow $DM_DEVDIR envvar to override default of "/dev".
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:04:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lkacxznj.fsf@rho.meyering.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r6k4y03r.fsf@rho.meyering.net> (Jim Meyering's message of "Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:54:32 +0200")
Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> wrote:
> BTW, here's a proposed update for the man page:
>
> diff --git a/man/dmsetup.8 b/man/dmsetup.8
> index 5b2ed9f..74a5f1b 100644
> --- a/man/dmsetup.8
> +++ b/man/dmsetup.8
> @@ -341,6 +341,11 @@ for creating devices with holes in them.
> .br
> 2056320 2875602 linear /dev/hdb 1028160
>
> +.SH FILES
> +These commands normally operate on files in \fB/dev\fP.
> +However, if you set the DM_DEV_DIR environment variable to some
> +other absolute directory name, they will use it instead.
I'm redoing it like LVM_SYSTEM_DIR in lvm.8.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-09 12:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-08 17:25 Allow $DM_DEVDIR envvar to override default of "/dev" Jim Meyering
2007-10-08 17:25 ` Jim Meyering
2007-10-09 2:00 ` [lvm-devel] " Alasdair G Kergon
2007-10-09 2:00 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2007-10-09 11:43 ` [lvm-devel] " Jim Meyering
2007-10-09 11:43 ` Jim Meyering
2007-10-09 11:56 ` [lvm-devel] " Alasdair G Kergon
2007-10-09 11:56 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2007-10-09 11:54 ` [lvm-devel] " Jim Meyering
2007-10-09 11:54 ` Jim Meyering
2007-10-09 12:04 ` Jim Meyering [this message]
2007-10-09 12:04 ` [dm-devel] Re: [lvm-devel] " Jim Meyering
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