Bug 510810

Summary: Typo in vgcreate man page.
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Jay <chalchal9>
Component: lvm2Assignee: LVM and device-mapper development team <lvm-team>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Cluster QE <mspqa-list>
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Version: 4.7CC: agk, dwysocha, edamato, heinzm, jbrassow, mbroz, prockai
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Fixed In Version: 2.02.49 upstream Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Jay 2009-07-10 21:45:22 UTC
Description of problem:
Example section has a typo in description and the example.  Description "/dev/hdk1, and /dev/hdl1" to be changed to "/dev/sdk1, and /dev/skl1".

============ section from man page.
VGCREATE(8)                                                                                                                

NAME
       vgcreate - create a volume group
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EXAMPLES
       To create a volume group named test_vg using physical volumes /dev/hdk1, and /dev/hdl1 with  default  physical
       extent size of 4MB:

            vgcreate test_vg /dev/sdk1 /dev/sdl1
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Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
man vgcreate

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Read the man page.
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Actual results:
volumes /dev/hdk1, and /dev/hdl1

Expected results:
volumes /dev/sdk1, and /dev/sdl1

Additional info:

Comment 1 Ivana Varekova 2009-07-13 06:48:54 UTC
Hello, the man-page is part of lvm2 package so I'm reassigning the component.

Comment 2 Alasdair Kergon 2009-07-13 11:26:07 UTC
Thanks for pointing this out.  It's too late to change this in RHEL4 now, but I've corrected it upstream so it'll get into other releases as and when they are updated.