On Fri, 28 Dec 2007, Hugh Brown wrote: > Shane Williams wrote: > > So, does anyone have a way that I can create something like > > /dev/home_volume that points to /dev/mapper/whatever, and does it in a > > way so that when a user runs "quota -v" or "df -k" they see > > /dev/home_volume instead? Alternately, can someone point me to some > > decent documentation for device-mapper. I can't seem to find much > > more than the man page talks about. > > > > Never thought I'd long for the days of a static /dev... > > > > As a different approach, you could create the volume group with a > meaningful name, ditto for the logical volumes. > > For example, you could create the volume group as HomeVG instead of as > VolGroup01.
Good point. I thought of that before Christmas and then promptly forget it. This is definitely a plan B option. I'm hoping to maintain the /dev/home_volume, /dev/mail_volume, etc. naming scheme because that's what currently exists on the RHEL 3, and all our docs refer to them that way. -- Shane Williams Coordinator of Information Technology & Systems Administrator School of Information, University of Texas at Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 512-471-9471 _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
