Tag: lvm

lvm: create snapshot between volume groups

linux lvm partitioning snapshot virtualization

is there a way to create a snapshot of a logical volume (lv1) that resides into volume group vgA inside a different volume group (say vgB)? i have my root logical volume in volume group vgA on the SSD and i want to take a snapshot of the volume on the second volume grout vgB that sits onto the mechanical

Can’t open /dev/sda2 exclusively. Mounted filesystem?

centos filesystems linux lvm

Above is my “fdisk -l”, my current problem is when I go and try to do “pvcreate /dev/sda2” it gives me “Can’t open /dev/sda2 exclusively. Mounted filesystem?” and I have been searching google for a while now trying to find a way to fix this. There is defiantly things I tried from google but none of them ended up working.