From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jbrassow@sourceware.org Date: 4 Jan 2011 21:41:37 -0000 Subject: LVM2/man lvconvert.8.in Message-ID: <20110104214137.23994.qmail@sourceware.org> List-Id: To: lvm-devel@redhat.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CVSROOT: /cvs/lvm2 Module name: LVM2 Changes by: jbrassow at sourceware.org 2011-01-04 21:41:36 Modified files: man : lvconvert.8.in Log message: Fix bug 635949: lvconvert man page clarification Patches: http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/LVM2/man/lvconvert.8.in.diff?cvsroot=lvm2&r1=1.18&r2=1.19 --- LVM2/man/lvconvert.8.in 2010/10/13 21:26:38 1.18 +++ LVM2/man/lvconvert.8.in 2011/01/04 21:41:35 1.19 @@ -51,9 +51,10 @@ [\-\-version] LogicalVolume[Path] [PhysicalVolume[Path]...] .SH DESCRIPTION -lvconvert will change a linear logical volume to a mirror -logical volume or to a snapshot of linear volume and vice versa. -It is also used to add and remove disk logs from mirror devices. +lvconvert is used to change the segment type (i.e. linear, mirror, etc) or +characteristics of a logical volume. For example, it can add or remove the +redundant images of a logical volume, change the log type of a mirror, or +designate a logical volume as a snapshot repository. .br If the conversion requires allocation of physical extents (for example, when converting from linear to mirror) and you specify