1.5 Location of Device Nodes for EVMS Storage Objects

EVMS creates a unified namespace for the logical volumes on your system in the /dev/evms directory. It detects the storage objects actually present on a system, and creates an appropriate device node for each one, such as those shown in the following table.

Table 1-3 Device Node Location

Storage Object

Standard Location the Device Node

EVMS Location of the Device Node

A disk segment of disk

/dev/sda5

/dev/evms/sda5

A software RAID device

/dev/md1

/dev/evms/md/md1

An LVM volume

/dev/lvm_group/lvm_volume

/dev/evms/lvm/lvm_group/lvm_volume