slackbuilds_ponce/system/thin-provisioning-tools
Heinz Wiesinger 63daf9f79a All: Support $PRINT_PACKAGE_NAME env var
Signed-off-by: Heinz Wiesinger <pprkut@slackbuilds.org>
2021-07-17 21:55:09 +02:00
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mkinitrd-1.4.8.patch
mkinitrd-1.4.10.patch
README
slack-desc
thin-provisioning-tools.info
thin-provisioning-tools.SlackBuild All: Support $PRINT_PACKAGE_NAME env var 2021-07-17 21:55:09 +02:00

A suite of tools for manipulating the metadata of the dm-thin, dm-era
and dm-cache device-mapper targets.

Required by LVM2 to start and manage LVM volumes with above features.

Package contains also patch for Slackware's mkinitrd.
It's required if you want to boot from cached root partition.
To apply the patch run:

  cd /sbin ; patch -p0 < /usr/doc/thin-provisioning-tools-*/mkinitrd-1.4.X.patch

where X is the version of the currently installed mkinitrd.