[parted-devel] Using 1.8.0rc2 with device mapper

[David Cantrell]

Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote:
> I was trying the latest 1.8.0rc2 code which I checked out from the
> SVN. Is it possible to use Parted with a whole volume group, instead
> of the logical volumes individually? eg., I have a volume group called
> 'devel', which contains 'alpha' and 'beta' as logical volumes. So can
> I do something like:
> # parted /dev/devel (obviously /dev/devel is a directory)
> instead of:
> # parted /dev/devel/alpha (which works)

No, because parted needs to work on block devices.  A volume group isn't 
a block device.

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David Cantrell
Red Hat / Westford, MA