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+.SH EXAMPLES
+
+Create a striped LV with 3 stripes, a stripe size of 8KiB and a size of 100MiB.
+The LV name is chosen by lvcreate.
+.br
+.B lvcreate \-i 3 \-I 8 \-L 100m vg00
+
+Create a raid1 LV with two images, and a useable size of 500 MiB. This
+operation requires two devices, one for each mirror image. RAID metadata
+(superblock and bitmap) is also included on the two devices.
+.br
+.B lvcreate \-\-type raid1 \-m1 \-L 500m \-n mylv vg00
+
+Create a mirror LV with two images, and a useable size of 500 MiB.
+This operation requires three devices: two for mirror images and
+one for a disk log.
+.br
+.B lvcreate \-\-type mirror \-m1 \-L 500m \-n mylv vg00
+
+Create a mirror LV with 2 images, and a useable size of 500 MiB.
+This operation requires 2 devices because the log is in memory.
+.br
+.B lvcreate \-\-type mirror \-m1 \-\-mirrorlog core \-L 500m \-n mylv vg00
+
+Create a copy\-on\-write snapshot of an LV:
+.br
+.B lvcreate \-\-snapshot \-\-size 100m \-\-name mysnap vg00/mylv
+
+Create a copy\-on\-write snapshot with a size sufficient
+for overwriting 20% of the size of the original LV.
+.br
+.B lvcreate \-s \-l 20%ORIGIN \-n mysnap vg00/mylv
+
+Create a sparse LV with 1TiB of virtual space, and actual space just under
+100MiB.
+.br
+.B lvcreate \-\-snapshot \-\-virtualsize 1t \-\-size 100m \-\-name mylv vg00
+
+Create a linear LV with a usable size of 64MiB on specific physical extents.
+.br
+.B lvcreate \-L 64m \-n mylv vg00 /dev/sda:0\-7 /dev/sdb:0\-7
+
+Create a RAID5 LV with a usable size of 5GiB, 3 stripes, a stripe size of
+64KiB, using a total of 4 devices (including one for parity).
+.br
+.B lvcreate \-\-type raid5 \-L 5G \-i 3 \-I 64 \-n mylv vg00
+
+Create a RAID5 LV using all of the free space in the VG and spanning all the
+PVs in the VG (note that the command will fail if there are more than 8 PVs in
+the VG, in which case \fB\-i 7\fP must be used to get to the current maximum of
+8 devices including parity for RaidLVs).
+.br
+.B lvcreate \-\-config allocation/raid_stripe_all_devices=1
+.RS
+.B \-\-type raid5 \-l 100%FREE \-n mylv vg00
+.RE
+
+Create RAID10 LV with a usable size of 5GiB, using 2 stripes, each on
+a two-image mirror. (Note that the \fB-i\fP and \fB-m\fP arguments behave
+differently:
+\fB-i\fP specifies the total number of stripes,
+but \fB-m\fP specifies the number of images in addition
+to the first image).
+.br
+.B lvcreate \-\-type raid10 \-L 5G \-i 2 \-m 1 \-n mylv vg00
+
+Create a 1TiB thin LV, first creating a new thin pool for it, where
+the thin pool has 100MiB of space, uses 2 stripes, has a 64KiB stripe
+size, and 256KiB chunk size.
+.br
+.B lvcreate \-\-type thin \-\-name mylv \-\-thinpool mypool
+.RS
+.B \-V 1t \-L 100m \-i 2 \-I 64 \-c 256 vg00
+.RE
+
+Create a thin snapshot of a thin LV (the size option must not be
+used, otherwise a copy-on-write snapshot would be created).
+.br
+.B lvcreate \-\-snapshot \-\-name mysnap vg00/thinvol
+
+Create a thin snapshot of the read-only inactive LV named "origin"
+which becomes an external origin for the thin snapshot LV.
+.br
+.B lvcreate \-\-snapshot \-\-name mysnap \-\-thinpool mypool vg00/origin
+
+Create a cache pool from a fast physical device. The cache pool can
+then be used to cache an LV.
+.br
+.B lvcreate \-\-type cache-pool \-L 1G \-n my_cpool vg00 /dev/fast1
+
+Create a cache LV, first creating a new origin LV on a slow physical device,
+then combining the new origin LV with an existing cache pool.
+.br
+.B lvcreate \-\-type cache \-\-cachepool my_cpool
+.RS
+.B \-L 100G \-n mylv vg00 /dev/slow1
+.RE
+