[CentOS] Device Mapper and pretty names
Filipe Brandenburger
filbranden at gmail.com
Tue Jun 10 02:04:35 UTC 2008
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Joseph L. Casale
<JCasale at activenetwerx.com> wrote:
> How does one view the dm-{n} names wrt the actual dev names?
> I assume it involves dmsetup but I cant figure it out. I am using iostat
> to track some busy disk io and don't know which dm-{n} to watch :)
Try ls -l /dev/mapper/
The minor number will correspond to the {n} in dm-{n}.
For instance, this:
$ ls -l /dev/mapper/
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 1 Apr 30 15:32 sysvg-home
indicates that dm-1 is /dev/sysvg/home
HTH,
Filipe
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