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I've never used it either, at least not directly.  Whatever it is doing
is automatic.  However, you're right, I'm sorry for bringing up someone
else's bug -- if nothing else, its good google fodder ;-)  So far, its
looking to me like a bug in Ubuntu Dapper.

Maybe you're supposed to use all disks via dm, which actually makes 
sense.  Direct partitions on disks are pretty lame way to manage disks 
these days although I've never used anything else.  :-p

I thought about this, but I couldn't intuitively figure out how.  I'm
not sure that whatever Ubuntu is doing is being done correctly.  I'll
have to read up on it, deal with manually removing these
devices-mappings, or switch to another distribution.  Thanks again!

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Eric Windisch [off-list ref]
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