From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050224 Firefox/1.0.1 Fedora/1.0.1-1.3.1 Description of problem: As reported in bug #144012, the default naming scheme of /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-XXX filesystem names are too long for normal df output, which cause problems with logwatch (and other custom scripts that parse df output). I suggest changing the default scheme to vg00 which creates a mnemonic with the related commands (vgdisplay, etc.) and matches the man page examples more closely. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run installer 2. Use autopartition 3. Look at default naming scheme Additional info:
The problem is that vg isn't very obvious. VolGroup is the shortest thing that was considered relatively obvious. You really want to be using df -P in scripts anyway (for this reason... some of the cciss devices can tickle problems like this as well)
Will you be renaming vgdisplay to VolGroupDisplay, too, then? Obviously there are trade-offs with vg00 vs. VolGroup00, but I'm thinking the vg mnemonic would actually make it more obvious to the average Linux admin reading fstab or man pages. The only place I might find VolGroup00 more helpful would be in installing using LVM for the first time--but then, I should have read up on it and know what I'm doing.