[arch-general] LVM on LUKS and fsck

Jayesh Badwaik jayesh.badwaik90 at gmail.com
Sun May 6 02:02:19 EDT 2012


On Sunday 06 May 2012 06:53:42 Sorin-Mihai Vârgolici wrote:
> In ~4 years of using encrypted lvm, I never saw that /dev/lvmvol thing.
> I can't figure how you managed to create it and use it in your
> config(s). Usually is something like /dev/mapper/lvmgroup-lvmvolume. Are
> you sure that LVM was created corectly? Did the system ever boot fine?

It is there in LVM, not sure about encrypted LVM though. You have both 
/dev/lvmgroup/lvmvolume and /dev/mapper/lvmgroup-lvmvolume. The 
/dev/lvmgroup/lvmvolume is a softlink to /dev/dm-x where x is the appropriate 
number. 
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