On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 8:15 AM, Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 09:20:32AM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > To me, it seems me the partition is too large to to reduce for > snapshots. > > > > What do you mean ? > > Did you allocate all the available space in the volume group to the > logical > > volumes ? Creating snapshots requires space. > > Yeah, if you let the installer do LVM partitioning "for" you, it > notoriously uses up all the extents, leaving you nothing to work with, > totally defeating the purpose of LVM. > > If you do an LVM install with Debian, you have to do manual partitioning. > Or at least, you really *really* want to. > > Yes, this was my first lvm install using the defaults which did not leave enough room for snapshots.
