Everything seems to work fine. But I found this shell> lvscan /dev/diskvg/lvsnapshot: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error .................. inactive Original '/dev/diskvg/rootlv' [2.92 GB] inherit inactive Snapshot '/dev/diskvg/lvsnapshot' [100.00 MB] inherit ........ How can I active the rootlv and lvsnapshort. And what does the inactive mean? When I mount the lvsnapshort, and backup it. It always shows many IO errors (both use tar and rsync). How do I backup the lvsnapshort. Thanks.... _______________________________________________ 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/