[linux-lvm] Snapshots and disk re-use

[Stuart D. Gathman]

On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Jonathan Tripathy wrote:

> lvcreate -nNewCustomerLV -L20G vg0
>
> where vg0 is /dev/vg0
> and vg0 is a volume group which uses an entire physical partition (Which I 
> guess is called a PV).
>
> Now, if I were to create my snapshots on a seperate vg, eg:

You can't do that.  Snapshots must be on the same VG.  James is suggesting you
create them on the same VG, but a different PV reserved for backup snapshots.

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