/dev/dm-x????

[Alastair Neil]

These are block devices created by the device mapper and are
equivalent to the more verbose but easier to interpret
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol??

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:43 AM, François Patte
<francois.patte at math-info.univ-paris5.fr> wrote:
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>  Bonjour,
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>  I have just used the command fidsk -l in order to see what was my
>  partitionning system.
>
>  I discovered a lot of  /dev/dm-x disks without any "valid partition table"
>
>  But, if I mount them (mount /dev/dm-9 /mnt) they are mounted without any
>  problems and these discks are only the partitions allready mounted under
>  another name (this /dev/dm-9 is /home...)
>
>  What does this mean?
>
>  I am using lvm
>
>  Thanks for lights.
>  - --
>  François Patte
>  UFR de mathématiques et informatique
>  Université Paris Descartes
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>  http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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