Running Redhat 9 and trying to create a snapshot for a safer backup of a logical volume, I get the following error. Surfing the net didn't turn up anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Richard lvcreate -L20M --snapshot --name mysnap /dev/vg00/homes lvcreate -- rounding size up to physical extent boundary lvcreate -- WARNING: the snapshot will be automatically disabled once it gets full lvcreate -- INFO: using default snapshot chunk size of 64 KB for "/dev/vg00/mysnap" lvcreate -- ERROR "Invalid argument" creating VGDA for "/dev/vg00/mysnap" in kernel ---- lvdisplay /dev/vg00/homes --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/vg00/homes VG Name vg00 LV Write Access read/write LV Status available LV # 2 # open 1 LV Size 64 GB Current LE 4 Allocated LE 4 Allocation next free Read ahead sectors 1024 Block device 58:1 _______________________________________________ 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/
