<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">what happens if you remove the '--test' from your command?<div> </div><div> brassow</div><div> <div><div>On May 26, 2009, at 12:01 PM, jose nuno neto wrote:</div> <blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="font-family: 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; ">HI <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; "> </div>I'm running into some problems with lvm on redhat. I'm trying to create a snapshot but gives always a error " Aborting. Failed to activate snapshot exception store." <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; "> </div>Also when I try to create a new volume and create new logical volumes I get the same error <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; "> </div>This is the output of the lvcreate -s and vgdisplay Any ideas/hints are apreciated <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; "> </div>Thanks Jose Nuno Neto <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; "> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; "> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; "> </div>lvcreate --test -L 504M -n SnapTest -i2 -s /dev/vgdb/lvdb02 Test mode: Metadata will NOT be updated. Using default stripesize 64.00 KB Rounding size (63 extents) up to stripe boundary size (64 extents) Aborting. Failed to activate snapshot exception store. --- Volume group --- VG Name vgdb System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 5 Metadata Sequence No 126 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV 0 Cur LV 2 Open LV 2 Max PV 0 Cur PV 5 Act PV 5 VG Size 249.96 GB PE Size 8.00 MB Total PE 31995 Alloc PE / Size 30976 / 242.00 GB Free PE / Size 1019 / 7.96 GB VG UUID FqqBnv-EKiI-TXA2-GR3C-b4i0-XTeq-xPxpVa --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/vgdb/lvdb01 VG Name vgdb LV UUID 0F2fNt-m2n5-MpJ8-dMNS-Xwzb-QsvS-LyHefm LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 2.00 GB Current LE 256 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 253:4 --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/vgdb/lvdb02 VG Name vgdb LV UUID 7Q038a-7FfX-AhBo-djfL-chFO-MI3N-vzdcbo LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 240.00 GB Current LE 30720 Segments 3 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 253:5 --- Physical volumes --- PV Name /dev/sdh1 PV UUID 13EWPc-BeSd-w1ub-wbhM-c3Ff-pi7U-KWDkxr PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 6399 / 0 PV Name /dev/sdi1 PV UUID 14OQ42-xq0w-xln5-z9ts-PHKF-goXA-X9qzTE PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 6399 / 255 PV Name /dev/sdj1 PV UUID U3h5F6-g6Wt-MNMb-AHyy-BP2R-BWf1-6LNm55 PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 6399 / 255 PV Name /dev/sdk1 PV UUID qkpbY5-dvGg-Z1Xb-3cEM-sidS-frbr-pCe8Bk PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 6399 / 255 PV Name /dev/sdb1 PV UUID WtDVja-1Q9u-Tgr8-bCU3-qlqS-lahj-m1p2cU PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 6399 / 254 <div style="white-space: pre-wrap; "> </div> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by <a href="http://www.mailscanner.info/">MailScanner</a>, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list <a href="mailto:linux-lvm@redhat.com">linux-lvm@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm</a> read the LVM HOW-TO at <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/">http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/</a></div></blockquote></div> </div></body></html>