Location Of Device Nodes For Evms Storage Objects - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 SP3 - STORAGE ADMINISTRATION GUIDE 2-23-2010 Administration Manual

1.5 Location of Device Nodes for EVMS Storage
Objects
EVMS creates a unified namespace for the logical volumes on your system in the
directory. It detects the storage objects actually present on a system, and creates an appropriate
device node for each one, such as those shown in the following table.
Device Node Location
Table 1-3
Storage Object
A disk segment of disk
A software RAID device
An LVM volume
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Standard Location the Device Node
/dev/sda5
/dev/md1
/dev/lvm_group/lvm_volume
/dev/evms
EVMS Location of the Device Node
/dev/evms/sda5
/dev/evms/md/md1
/dev/evms/lvm/lvm_group/
lvm_volume