devmap_name(8)

devmap_name8

Query device-mapper name

Usage

devmap_name major minor

Overview

devmap_name queries the device-mapper for the name for the device specified by major and minor number.
devmap_name can be called from udev by the following rule in /etc/udev/udev.rules:

KERNEL="dm-[0-9]*", PROGRAM="/sbin/devmap_name %M %m", \
	NAME="%k", SYMLINK="%c"

Releases

3 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 3.1
  2. 4.0–5.0

Authors

devmap_name was developed by Christophe Varoqui, <[email protected]> and others.

From multipath-tools 0.4.8-14+lenny2 in Debian 5.0 (Lenny). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.