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I get errors about /dev/mapper/control when I try to use the LVM 2 tools. Whats going on?

April 26, 2017CONTROL dev errors going LVM Mapper tools Try

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I get errors about /dev/mapper/control when I try to use the LVM 2 tools. Whats going on?

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The primary cause of this is not having run the “dmsetup mknodes” after rebooting into a dm capable kernel. This script generates the control node for device mapper.