On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Tapas Mishra wrote: > I want to break one LVM into 2 one of which I want to populate with a > root filesystem > and another with swap. If you want people to understand your questions, stop talk about "one LVM" as if it was a storage device (virtual or real). LVM is a software package, and the objects you manipulate using it include LV Logical Volume PV Physical Volume VG Volume Group In addition, kpartx creates virtual block devices. -- 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/