On 2/18/2015 8:20 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Niki Kovacs<info at microlinux.fr> wrote: >> >Le 18/02/2015 23:12, Chris Murphy a écrit : >>> >> >>> >>"installer is organized around mount points" is correct, and what gets >>> >>mounted on mount points? Volumes, not partitions. >> > >> > >> >Says who? > Because it's ambiguous. A partition might entirely contain a volume (a > filesystem), but in your case none of your partitions contain a > volume. They're members of md raid first, only once that's assembled > is there a logical block device, which happens to contain the volume, > and it is the volume you're mounting. All you have to do is check > fstab, partitions aren't assigned mount points, volumes are. and I make my mdraid's PV's for lvm, and create LV's that are my file systems which I mount. so thats one MORE level of indirection. disks -> partition(s) -> mdraid devices -> PVs -> VG -> LV -> file system. phew. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast