Jim McCloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] The installation used LVM2 (I'm very happy about that), but I > have a niggling worry.
> The device-names in /dev-mapper/ by convention include the system's > hostname as one of their sub-parts: > /dev/mapper/temporaryhostname-root / > As far I can tell, this naming convention is irrelevant for all > networking purposes and shouldn't cause a problem when the hostname > and the mailname and so on are changed. That's correct. It's a label and nothing more. > But I haven't been able to *absolutely* reassure myself about this. Am > I missing something? It gets complicated trying to handle two LVMs on the same host if they have the same volume name, so some distributions try to mitigate the possibility by including a hostname in the volume name. (Why would you have two LVMs with the same name? I wouldn't plan to, but it can come about when swapping disk drives about.) Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
