Re: What are dm-x devices?

2008-08-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 04 August 2008 14:45:07 Anders Karlsson wrote: > * Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20080804 14:43]: > > What are /dev/dm-0 through to /dev/dm-3? They are listed as block > > devices, and owned root:disk. Looking at gkrellm, dm-0 and dm-2 appear > > to mirror the activity of my system d

Re: What are dm-x devices?

2008-08-04 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20080804 14:43]: > What are /dev/dm-0 through to /dev/dm-3? They are listed as block devices, > and owned root:disk. Looking at gkrellm, dm-0 and dm-2 appear to mirror the > activity of my system disk, sdb. Device mapper device-nodes. Look in /dev/mapper/ and

Re: What are dm-x devices?

2008-08-04 Thread Steve
Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are /dev/dm-0 through to /dev/dm-3? They are listed as block devices, > and owned root:disk. Looking at gkrellm, dm-0 and dm-2 appear to mirror the > activity of my system disk, sdb. They have something to do with LVM is about all I can tell

What are dm-x devices?

2008-08-04 Thread Anne Wilson
What are /dev/dm-0 through to /dev/dm-3? They are listed as block devices, and owned root:disk. Looking at gkrellm, dm-0 and dm-2 appear to mirror the activity of my system disk, sdb. Then there are sr0 and sr1 - what are they? Again, I can't see much in the way of a clue. Anne signature.