>>> On 6/17/2010 at 09:17 AM, Sebastian Korte <zlinu...@gmail.com> wrote: 
> Dear list,
> 
> we moved some SLES9 guests over SLES10 to SLES11. Now pvscan is
> confusing us on each guest:
> # pvscan
-snip-
> PV /dev/-part1   VG vg01   lvm2 [13.53 GB / 0    free]
> Total: 4 [53.30 GB] / in use: 4 [53.30 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0   ]
> 
> What is /dev/-part1?
> # ls -la /dev/-part1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jun 10 10:04 /dev/-part1 -> dasdc1
> 
> rm /dev/-part1 solved this. But only until next reboot, a new link is
> created and I don't know why. Any suggestions?

The link is being created by udev.  Since /dev no longer exists on real disk, 
it has to be rebuilt every time you boot.

This looks like a bug that was fixed quite some time ago.  Have you put on any 
maintenance after installing SLES11?


Mark Post

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