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/ -- Tomasz Torcz To co nierealne -- tutaj jest normalne. xmpp: zdzich...@chrome.pl Ziomale na życie mają tu patenty specjalne. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
