Why do the name of my partitions changes after reboot when I partition a LUN on multipath with fdisk?

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Issue

  • Why do the name of my partitions changes after reboot when I partition a LUN on multipath with fdisk?
    I do the following:
    1. Add a LUN detected by dm-multipath (say "disk1");
    2. Add a partition to the LUN with "fdisk /dev/mapper/disk1";
    3. Refresh the partition table with "kpartx -av /dev/mapper/disk1";
    3a. file /dev/mapper/disk11 is created by step 3
    4. reboot
    4a. The partition device has been renamed disk1p1

How do I make kpartx generate the definitive name (disk1p1) instead of one that will disappear at next reboot (disk11)?
or is this the default behavior of kpartx)?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • device mapper multipath

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