On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 02:08:23PM +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 07:38:30AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I'm trying to make sure I don't do something catastrophic by > > misunderstanding. > > > > I do > > > > lvcreate --name ascii-root --size 3G jessie > > > > to create a logical volume called "ascii-root" within the volume > > group "jessie". > > > > Then I look at the result by > > > > ls /dev/mapper > > > > and get: > > > > root@notlookedfor:/# lvcreate --name ascii-root --size 3G jessie > > Logical volume "ascii-root" created > > root@notlookedfor:/# ls /dev/mapper > > control jessie-devuan--home jessie-devuan--usr jessie-tmp > > jessie-ascii--root jessie-devuan--root jessie-devuan--var > > root@notlookedfor:/# > > > > Now I get it that it concatenates the folume group name, a hyphen, > > and the logical volume name. > > > > But why does it stick an extra hyphen in the logical volume name? > > To “escape” the hyphen in name, in order to differentiate between > concatenation hyphen and in-the-name hyphen. > > BTW, check ls /dev/jessie/
Thanks. I can stop worrying I've done something hoplessly and incomprehensibly wrong. -- hendrik > > > -- > Tomasz Torcz To co nierealne -- tutaj jest normalne. > xmpp: [email protected] Ziomale na życie mają tu patenty specjalne. > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
