[40309.478954] device-mapper: table: 254:15: linear: Invalid argument count root@bar /tmp # vgchange -ay looptest Logging initialised at Mon Aug 20 11:00:05 2018 Activating logical volume looptest/testing. activation/volume_list configuration setting not defined: Checking only host tags for looptest/testing. Creating looptest-testing Loading table for looptest-testing (254:15). Resuming looptest-testing (254:15). Activated 1 logical volumes in volume group looptest 1 logical volume(s) in volume group "looptest" now active root@bar /tmp # dmsetup table /dev/mapper/looptest-testing 0 2088960 linear 7:0 2048 2088960 2088960 linear 7:1 2048 4177920 2088960 linear 7:2 2048 6266880 2088960 linear 7:3 2048 root@bar /tmp # dmsetup table /dev/mapper/looptest-testing > test.table root@bar /tmp # vgchange -an looptest Logging initialised at Mon Aug 20 11:00:18 2018 Deactivating logical volume looptest/testing. Removing looptest-testing (254:15) Deactivated 1 logical volumes in volume group looptest 0 logical volume(s) in volume group "looptest" now active root@bar /tmp # dmsetup create test --table test.table Invalid format on line 1 of table . Command failed. root@bar /tmp # dmsetup create test --table "$(cat test.table)" device-mapper: reload ioctl on test failed: Invalid argument Command failed. root@bar /tmp # dmesg | tac | head -n2 [40309.478958] device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table [40309.478954] device-mapper: table: 254:15: linear: Invalid argument count root@bar /tmp # cat test.table 0 2088960 linear 7:0 2048 2088960 2088960 linear 7:1 2048 4177920 2088960 linear 7:2 2048 6266880 2088960 linear 7:3 2048 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel