There should be none.
Note, however, that /dev/mapper/ may contain non-LVM specials as
well, such as cryptsetup(8) ones.
My guess is that /dev/VG/LV may provide some sort of backwards
compatibility, as LVM may have been implemented before Linux's
I created a LV and was going to use the following command to create a file
system:
mkfs.ext4 /dev/vg/lv
someone suggested I use:
mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-lv
What's the difference?
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Kind regards,
Yudi
Hi Yudi,
yudi v wrote:
I created a LV and was going to use the following command to create a
file system:
mkfs.ext4 /dev/vg/lv
someone suggested I use:
mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-lv
What's the difference?
Perhaps nothing, provided it is mapped properly:
# ls -lart /dev/mapper/vg0-root
yudi v yudi@gmail.com writes:
I created a LV and was going to use the following command to create a
file system:
mkfs.ext4 /dev/vg/lv
someone suggested I use:
mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-lv
What's the difference?
There should be none.
Note, however, that
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