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  1. Bug #274264
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Comment 1 for bug 274264

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Alasdair G. Kergon (agk2) wrote : Re: [Bug 274264] [NEW] lvcreate --type undocumented

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 05:30:03AM -0000, Peter Cordes wrote:
> AFAICT, --type isn't documented in the man page or in
> /usr/share/doc/lvm2. And I didn't have any luck with google.

It's an alternative way of specifying the type of segment to
create e.g. mirror, snapshot, error, zero etc.
E.g. lvcreate -s is treated internally as a shortcut for lvcreate --type
snapshot.

Maybe someone would submit a man page patch to the lvm-devel list...

Alasdair
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