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From: Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] inconsistency in opening multiple mappers on the
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To: ".. ink .." <mhogomchungu@gmail.com>
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On 06/01/2012 02:47 PM, .. ink .. wrote:
> The error should have said "mapper name zzz already exist", not
> "device zzz already exist".

Device-mapper create block DEVICES. "mapper name" means nothing,
It is "device-mapper device name" if you want to be precise.

Milan