[Gllug] One step forward - 2 steps back

[Tethys]

John Winters writes:

>Setting up LVM Volume Groups...
>  Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
>  Found volume group "data" using metadata type lvm1
>  /dev/data/vmware not symbolic link - not removing
>  /dev/data/cdwork not symbolic link - not removing
>  2 logical volume(s) in volume group "data" now active
>
>the two "not removing" messages is?

Normally, /dev/vgname/foo is a symlink to /dev/mapper/vgname-foo.
Setting up LVM Volume Groups entails ensuring that these symlinks
are correct, by simply deleting the old ones and recreating them.
It obviosuly has a safety check so that it doesn't delete the old
ones if they're not symlinks.

Tet
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