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From: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
To: nicollet@jeru.org
Cc: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] From /dev/mapper to the real device
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:34:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D355EC0.6090402@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110118090149.GE14608@jeru.org>

On 01/18/2011 10:01 AM, Xavier Nicollet wrote:
> I did something like that:
> cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/mapper/lv_device crypto_device
> 
> I would like to find a way, given /dev/mapper/crypto_device, to find
> which lv_device it was built from.

cryptsetup status crypto_device (for active mapping)?

(But note this device name is not always the same you used, for LV you can
have several symlinks /dev/mapper/vg-lv or /dev/vg/lv or /dev/by-uuid/... 
so there are hardcoded priorities)

Milan

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-18  9:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-18  9:01 [dm-crypt] From /dev/mapper to the real device Xavier Nicollet
2011-01-18  9:34 ` Milan Broz [this message]
2011-01-18 14:25   ` Arno Wagner
2011-01-18 16:31     ` Thomas Bächler
2011-01-18 15:38   ` [dm-crypt] Another corrupt luks header thread Viktor Ekmark
2011-01-18 16:36     ` Thomas Bächler
2011-01-18 18:54     ` Arno Wagner

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