Re: LVM and lilo: a problem!

[Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>]

On 2 Oct 2005, Paulo da Silva gibbered uncontrollably:
> However, I needed to run lilo and got the
> following message:
> 
> Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory structure.
>     Name change: '/dev/dm-0' -> '/dev/VSDB/gtpalma'
> 
> '/dev/VSDB/gtpalma' is a logical volume I created and is
> working fine anyway.
> 
> What does this mean?

LILO assumes that names in /proc/partitions correspond one-to-one with
names in /dev. This assumption isn't true under LVM (and need not be
true in any circumstances: you can rearrange disks in any way you
like with udev, and a number of distributions do).

> Should I do anything to avoid the message?

As far as I know, it's harmless.

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