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. snapshot may be a good fit in this case, but if you insist you can use lvconvert to convert your linear volume to a mirrored volume. Once the sync is complete, you can use the same lvconvert to convert the mirror volume to a linear one. Thanks, Malahal. _______________________________________________ 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/