Ambrogio De Lorenzo <ambrogio.de.lorenzo@alice.it> wrote: > Hi all. > I'm doing a big upgrade on my computer and I tryed to use lv mirroring > to obtain a copy of my data before to do it. > > As I do with LVM on other OS i thought that after mirroring one could > chose to split the mirrored lv. > > I can't find how to do it with LVM2 on Linux. > > There is a way? Mirroring is software RAID1. What you want looks like LVM snapshots. See LVM HOWTO to see how to create snapshots. A backup may be a good thing to do, too. -- André Gillibert _______________________________________________ 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/