I can't seem to create a snapshot volume using LVM2 with device mapper. Here is the output. Any idea what is wrong? The original volume is active and mounted. [root@slpratt share]$ lvm lvm> vgscan Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Found volume group "g1" using metadata type lvm1 lvm> vgdisplay g1 --- Volume group --- VG Name g1 System ID slpratt997724963 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV 256 Cur LV 1 Max PV 256 Cur PV 2 VG Size 3.22 GB PE Size 4.00 MB Total PE 825 Alloc PE / Size 74 / 296.00 MB Free PE / Size 751 / 2.93 GB VG UUID RQl0zu-hGo8-IV5n-b6Mb-ljFL-LDDy-YPWiWo lvm> lvdisplay --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/g1/org VG Name g1 LV UUID 000000-0000-0000-0000-0000-0000-000000 LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 296.00 MB Current LE 74 Segments 1 Allocation next free Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 254:0 lvm> lvcreate -L296M -c8k -n snap g1/org /var/lock/lvm/V_g1/org: open failed: No such file or directory <-------- Can't get lock for g1/org lvm> lvscan ACTIVE '/dev/g1/org' [296.00 MB] lvm> EVMS Development - http://www.sf.net/projects/evms Linux Technology Center - IBM Corporation (512) 838-9763 EMAIL: SLPratt@US.IBM.COM _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
