It seems that the maximum name length of a logical volume is 127 bytes (discovered by trial and error). Just to make sure we're using the correct value, is this value documented somewhere? Is it possible to retrieve it at run-time? -- Thanos Makatos Software Engineer (XenServer Storage) Citrix Systems Ltd. Cambridge, UK _______________________________________________ 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/