Given: hdc is a 80G hard disk. Only use 20G and mount as backup =============================== Steps: # Phyical Volume creation of hdc pvcreate /dev/hdc # Volume group creation as name VolGroup01 vgcreate VolGroup01 /dev/hdc # Logical Volume Group creation as name LogVol00 lvcreate -n LogVol00 --size 20G VolGroup01 # Format as EXT3 mke2fs -j /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00 # Mount as backup mkdir /backup mount /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00 /backup # Check result with df -h pvdisplay vgdisplay lvdisplay Just my two cents. _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/