While trying to snapshot a 335 GB LV (sdd1) on a machine with 12 GB of RAM, and 67 GB of free space (sdc1), I get the following error: lvcreate -s -l 21 -n snapshot /dev/VGdb01/LVdb lvcreate -- WARNING: the snapshot will be automatically disabled once it gets full lvcreate -- INFO: using default snapshot chunk size of 64 KB for "/dev/VGdb01/snapshot" lvcreate -- ERROR "Cannot allocate memory" creating VGDA for "/dev/VGdb01/snapshot" in kernel kernel is 2.4.21 (LVM 1.0.5+) with tools form ~redhat/contrib/lvm-1.0.5.src.rpm Help _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
