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List:       fedora-list
Subject:    Re: Authentication is required to mount /dev/fedora_localhost-live/home
From:       Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan () gmail ! com>
Date:       2020-02-03 16:27:28
Message-ID: 10a5410d542a8b0ab84ee5901596c86dbc8b8fe9.camel () gmail ! com
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On Mon, 2020-02-03 at 08:04 -0800, Mike Wright wrote:
> > Neither does the name (two dashes instead of one, as you noted in
> > another reply) so I'm not sure what's going on here.
> 
> The "two dashes thing" is an artifact of the device mapper (/dev/mapper) 
> which creates symlinks to the physicals.  To include the path 
> information in the link hyphens are replaced with two hyphens and 
> slashes are replaced with a single hyphen.
> 
> To manually mount an LVM partition you may use the full mapper path with 
> the "two dashes thing" or the more familiar 
> /dev/fedora_localhost-live/home.  They're equivalent.

OK, I never knew that, thanks

poc
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