Re: devmapper mount names
>> A basic question that I can't seem to find an answer to (maybe not so
>> basic?).
>>
>> Using LVM and therefore devmapper, the volume names are such that >they
>> are accessible under /dev/mapper/<PV_Name>-<LV_Name>. Likewise, these
>> names are used in reporting (du, df, mount, etc...). I would prefer >to
>> have the volumes reported directly as their dev names, so
>> /dev/mapper/volgroup-root should be /dev/volgroup/root. The volumes
>are
>> accessible this way, and if I use those entries in fstab it works
>fine,
>> but still get reported under the /dev/mapper/* headers.
>>
>> My best guess is that it has something to do with the order of the
>> lookup of devices, but I don't have any idea how to modify that. Is
>this
>> possible? Is there a reason not to want such a presentation?
>If I understand you correctly, here is how I do it in my /etc/fstab
>
># /etc/fstab: static file system information.
>#
># <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
>proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
>/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0
>1
>/dev/lv_home_group/lv_home /home reiserfs defaults 2 2
>/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 defaults 0 2
>/dev/local/lv_usr /usr reiserfs defaults 2 2
>#/dev/hda3 /Knoppix ext3 defaults 0 2
>/dev/local/lv_local /usr/local reiserfs defaults 2 2
>/dev/backups/lv_backup /backups reiserfs defaults 2 2
>/dev/spare/pgm3 /pgm3 reiserfs defaults 2 2
>/dev/spare/album /album reiserfs defaults 2 2
>/dev/hda5 /var ext3 defaults 0 2
>/dev/hdb9 /extra ext3 defaults 0 0
>#/dev/hdb10 /knoppix ext3 defaults 0 0
>/dev/hda7 none swap sw 0 0
>/dev/hdb3 none swap sw 0 0
>/dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
>/dev/hdc /media/dvd iso9660 rw,user,noauto 0 0
>/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
>#/dev/hdc /mnt/UDFDVD auto ro,user,noatime 0 0
>/dev/pktcdvd/cdrom /mnt/UDF udf noauto,noatime,user,rw 0 >0
>/dev/pktcdvd/dvd /mnt/UDF udf noauto,noatime,user,rw 0 0
That mounts the drives just fine, I use the shorter names in my fstab
currently. However, when using (as an example) 'df' to view filesystems,
the name is listed as the full /dev/mapper/* device.
I would like to use shorter entries in fstab - this works already. What
I would also like to be able to have happen, is df and the like display
the shorter name /dev/{volgroup}/{volname}.
Any ideas?
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