Device mapper

• ls -lrt /dev/mapper

vgchange -a|--activate y|n|ay

The block device for the LV is added or removed from the system using device-mapper in the kernel. A symbolic link /dev/VGName/LVName pointing to the device node is also added/removed.

Activities

• Read Configuring Device Mapper Multipath RHEL 8 https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/configuring_device_mapper_multipath/index

Related

• Multipath: remove multipath device unpresented to host

See also

• Fibre Channel: HBA, multipath-tools, multipath, multipath -ll, /etc/multipath.conf multipathd rescan-scsi-bus.sh powermt Device mapper dmsetup ls,
• LVM