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There are many naming conventions for partitions associated with a block device. Some of the major ones are: /dev/foo -> /dev/foo1 /dev/foo1 -> /dev/foo1p1 /dev/mapper/foo -> /dev/mapper/foop1 /dev/disk/by-path/foo -> /dev/disk/by-path/foo-part1 The universe of possible conventions isn't clear. Rather than trying to understand all possible conventions, this patch divides devices into two groups, device mapper devices and everything else. Device mapper devices seem always to follow the convention of device -> devicep1; everything else is canonicalized.
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>