On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 03:42:23PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > On my Debian unstable machine, my /etc/fstab has entries of the form > /dev/hdc3 > to mount partitions. Using the df command, these mounts are shown as > /dev/hdc3 > etc On my Debian Sarge machine my /etc/fstab has similar entries, but when I > issue the df command, I get mounts listed of the form > /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part3 Desipte devices of the form /dev/hdc3 > existing. I have run devfsd on this machine in the past, although I no longer > do. It appears that df is just outputing what it sees in /etc/mtab. But why > does /etc/mtab show these differences. Is there a missing package to install? > Secondly, on BOTH machines I use lvm2. On both machines mounted logical > devices of the form /dev/vg/xxx show on the df output as /dev/mapper/vg-xxx > Is > there anyway of making this show in the way I expect (ie /dev/vg/xxx)? -- > Alan Chandler > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
You have to setup udev to *not* use the devfs compatibility names. If you had previously run devfs, then udev did this to prevent breaking your devfs-aware applications. I had the same issue and simply had to reconfigure udev and reboot the machine :-(. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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