On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 at 07:12, <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 15, 2025 at 06:10:35PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> > > Sorry for any inconvenience.  Calling an LVM volume group kvm is
> > > a really stupid idea.
> > >
> > > This creates a
> > > /dev/kvm so kvm cannot work.

> > Oh, that was clever!
> >
> > I recently started preferring `/dev/mapper/<VG>-<LV>` over the
> > (admittedly) prettier `/dev/<VG>/<LV>`, just because it lets me use TAB
> > completion when I can't remember the VG name, but now you've convinced
> > me that `/dev/<VG>/<LV>` is evil!

> And then there are the lucky idiots like me, who always had /dev/mapper
> "because everyone's doing it" (everyone is cryptsetup, in my case, but
> hey).

I find it helps clarity to name all my VG's as VG<something>
and all my LV's as LV<something>.

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