Re: [tlug] mysterious disappearing boot filesystem (update)

[Keith Bawden <isdj@example.com>]

Scott VanDusen wrote:
> After a few days of fiddling around with LVM2 

# SNIP

> Any idea why the mapper was creating these pdc* aliases for /dev/hda1
> and /dev/hda2? Maybe something with udev?

Hello,

Because you are using lvm. With lvm volumes you mount the "volume" and
not the actual physical device.

Try these commands, they should show you the available volumes and a
bunch of other useful bits-n-pieces  vgdisplay  or lvscan or  pvdisplay
/dev/hda1

Regards, Keith