[SLL] [herber at thing.com: Re: unable to mount old drive when it's secondary]

Rob Smith kormoc at gmail.com
Thu Oct 18 14:41:45 PDT 2007


On 10/18/07, Ana <christiana at hipointcoffee.com> wrote:
> When I ran 'fdisk -l' I saw that sdb and another device I would never
> have know to look for: "/dev/dm-0", both point to the same device.  I
> was utterly shocked and confused.  haha.  In the fdisk listing below you
> can see that the partition info for both sdb and dm-0 are the same
> except for the device names.

DM tends to be Device Mapper, also known as LVM.

Wouldn't explain the vfat partition

~Rob


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