Why some LUN's wwid shows 'p' as a last character to indicate partition number?
Issue
-
Why some LUN's WWID shows
p
as a last character to indicate partition number but some wwid shows partition number withoutp
? -
Why some PV shows the
p
after the lun's WWID while some don't?
# pvs
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/mapper/360014050eba92db080747c099a380903p1 lvm2 --- 1023.00m 1023.00m <---
/dev/mapper/3600140533b05d2755d8448ea3a524ddf1 lvm2 --- 1023.00m 1023.00m <---
lsblk
command shows that some of the WWID showing partition number afterp
but some WWID does not showp
to show partition number.
# lsblk | egrep -i sdd\|sdb -A2
sdb 8:16 0 1G 0 disk
├─sdb1 8:17 0 1023M 0 part
└─36001405d89e5ff7af0b4cedaac8ecb92 253:4 0 1G 0 mpath
└─36001405d89e5ff7af0b4cedaac8ecb92p1 253:6 0 1023M 0 part <---
--
sdd 8:48 0 1G 0 disk
├─sdd1 8:49 0 1023M 0 part
└─3600140533b05d2755d8448ea3a524ddf 253:2 0 1G 0 mpath
└─3600140533b05d2755d8448ea3a524ddf1 253:8 0 1023M 0 part <---
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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