On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Alan Pek wrote: > Read through the doc and tried to create a snapshot lv for rootlv by > doing, but failed. > > singmrecfp1001:~ # lvcreate -L 2.5g -s -n rsnap rootvg > Path required for Logical Volume "rootvg" > The origin name should include the volume group. You forgot the LV name. E.g. singmrecfp1001:~ # lvcreate -L 2.5g -s -n rsnap rootvg/myroot -- Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@bmsi.com> Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154 "Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis" - background song for a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial. _______________________________________________ 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/