Il giorno lun, 22/01/2007 alle 10.52 -0800, Rick Stevens ha scritto: > The trick here is that the original VG must be inactive before you do > the split. AFAIK, the only way you can do that with your stuff now is > to boot off the rescue CD, let it mount the stuff, then follow the steps > I did starting with "vgchange -a n ..." > I'm not sure about that, but if the VG has to be inactive before to split a volume from it, this is not a good LVM. All of the activities about VG have to be online activities. And, also in tha man page about vgsplit the inactive status is not mentioned. Bye Ambrogio