From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick Caulfield Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] summary of what I need to do to mount snapshot on XFS Message-Id: <20020109130259.GC744@tykepenguin.com> References: <1010503449.28039.5.camel@cali.nesnahhouse.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Wed Jan 9 07:04:02 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:06:04PM +1000, Adrian Head wrote: > The basic concept is you create a snapshot LV > lvcreate -L1G -s -n snap /dev/vg/lv1 > > This will create a 1G snapshot logical volume called snap for the original > logical volume /dev/vg/lv1 > > If this has completed successfully then you can mount it. > > mount -t xfs -o nouuid /dev/vg/snap /mnt/snapshot You may also need -o norecovery too. patrick