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author | Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> | 2010-10-25 12:52:49 +0100 |
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committer | Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> | 2010-10-27 10:59:45 +0100 |
commit | b01ef8eae1acc5105e623a25c8988bcc3326ea1c (patch) | |
tree | c40e5c07e4b6802bf091fb44bcfe5cb97129b12c /src/guestfs-internal.h | |
parent | 504c3de9fe9db97fb14f2ab8310a588fc3a04458 (diff) | |
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New API: lvm-canonical-lv-name: make LV name canonical.
When logical volume names appear in places like /etc/fstab
files they can have the form "/dev/mapper/foo-bar". This
function takes such names and makes them canonical.
Note that this operation cannot be performed using the current
API, because 'guestfs_stat' does not work on device names, and
we don't really want to make a 'stat-device' call since that
exposes too much non-useful detail about the appliance.
With this patch you can do this:
><fs> debug ll /dev/mapper
total 8
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 25 12:51 .
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Oct 25 12:51 ..
crw------- 1 root root 10, 62 Oct 25 12:51 control
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Oct 25 12:51 vg_f13x64-lv_root -> ../dm-0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Oct 25 12:51 vg_f13x64-lv_swap -> ../dm-1
><fs> lvm-canonical-lv-name /dev/mapper/vg_f13x64-lv_root
/dev/vg_f13x64/lv_root
><fs> lvm-canonical-lv-name /dev/mapper/vg_f13x64-lv_swap
/dev/vg_f13x64/lv_swap
><fs> lvm-canonical-lv-name /dev/mapper/foo
libguestfs: error: lvm_canonical_lv_name: lvm_canonical_lv_name_stub: /dev/mapper/foo: No such file or directory
><fs> lvm-canonical-lv-name /dev/mapper/control
libguestfs: error: lvm_canonical_lv_name: /dev/mapper/control: not a logical volume
><fs> lvm-canonical-lv-name /dev/vg_f13x64/lv_root
/dev/vg_f13x64/lv_root
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